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
'Mill Creek is my favorite, filled with memories of my childhood' — Mabel returns to her father's sawmill country. Companion to our Return to Mill Creek photo story.
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Sir James Alderson was born at Hull and educated at Cambridge, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1822. He was sixth wrangler (meaning he achieved the sixth highest score in the Mathematical Tripos), and afterward became a fellow of Pembroke College. In 1829 he took the degree of M.D. at Oxf…
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A newspaper account of the night Tiburcio Vasquez's gang broke into Snyder's store at Tres Pinos — and left three men dead.
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A man on the wagon train shot an Indian woman. The Indians demanded a life for a life — and got one.
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Miners who trusted no one trusted Sarah Plaskett, who kept their gold under her roof and fed them at her table.
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A brass band, a literary club, and a rare kind of fellowship — culture flourished in a valley days from anywhere.
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Ed Plaskett rode at a gallop along cliff edges that made grown men dismount and walk.
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Orval Olmstead — 'Old Cap' to the children — brought the ways of a sailing ship to a cabin on Mill Creek.
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