More than a century on the Big Sur coast
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Her earliest known piece, under the pen name Belinda Brown - eighteen years before Coast Trails. How Cox's Hole became Pacific Valley, who named it, and the July the family left Fresno because San Joaquin was getting “too thickly settled”.
From Mabel’s pen
Up the Nacimiento from the old McKern place, the homesteaders of the 1890s picked the prettiest valley in the Lucias.
Family spotlight
Mrs. Plasket, wife of Reason A. Plasket, died at the family residence on Maple Avenue, Salinas, after a long illness from breast cancer. Born in Ohio in 1853. Married Reason A. Plasket at Youngstown, Ohio, 13 years before death. After marriage they came to California and settled in Salinas. Four yea…
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Fifty children grew up in the isolated valley — every one of them, the family said, happy and healthy.
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A William & Mary man on the frontier: William Lucas set bones and doctored neighbors a hundred miles from help.
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In 1937 the pavement finally reached the coast the Plasketts had settled 68 years earlier.
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Myrtle Sans's son jumped from his crippled plane over Panama so the others might make it. His parachute failed.
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A grizzly kept raiding Charles Sans's stock — so he answered with honey laced with poison.
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Manuel Sans waited all night in a tree over a honey bait for the grizzly that came at dawn.
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