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
Her father in full: Edward R. Sans, farmer, lumberman, explorer — Nevada's 'Coyote Man,' the government's legendary predator hunter.
Family spotlight
Rode from Santa Cruz in early 1860s at age 14. Worked for Plasketts and Mansfields his whole life. Never looked at a woman. Saved small fortune on $30/month wages. Died 1931, buried King City Cemetery.…
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For a shining-eyed child named Michael — and the secret in him that time hasn't dulled yet.
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Her tribute to E.R. Sans, the Coyote Man — 'the hero of our dreams, the well beloved, the noblest and the best.'
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A love poem: dreams brought back to vibrant life, 'and all because of you.'
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For her daughter Peggy at twenty — 'When first I held you in my arms... I thought that you were mine alone.'
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Rain or storm won't keep the family from 'The Topo' in spring — riding through the floral fields for Uncle Charley's birthday.
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For Uncle Charley and Aunt Elizabeth — the mill-stream childhood they blessed, and the sorrow of parting she never dreamed of.
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