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Bears, Cougars, and Wild Animals of Pacific Valley
Winter in Pacific Valley meant bears in the stock pens and cougars in the hills.
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Saddle Rock Ranch Is Now Memorial to Coast Pioneer
Who was Julia Pfeiffer Burns? The ranchwoman who shod horses and roped with the best — remembered in the park at Saddle Rock.
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Frank Westlake
Frank Westlake was a rancher in the Jolon area whose property later became home to the Edward and Mabel Plaskett family. The Westlake Ranch was eventually absorbed into Fort Hunter Liggett when the Army took over the land in 1940.…
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Byron Plaskett the Postmaster
From 1890 Byron Plaskett carried the mail from Jolon Road twice a week, rain or shine, with a string of up to ten horses.
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Building St. Lukes Church
Three Plaskett brothers built St. Luke's at Jolon in 1884 — and it still stands.
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The Jolon Indians - Joe and Dave Moro
Joe and Dave Moro of Chalk Peak worked the Sans sawmill for ten years — two of the last Jolon Indians.
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Bears, Cougars, and Wild Animals of Pacific Valley
Winter in Pacific Valley meant bears in the stock pens and cougars in the hills.
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Mabel Childhood Adventures on Mill Creek
'A happier more carefree childhood cannot be imagined' — Mabel on growing up wild on Mill Creek.
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Conrad Kotts at the Battle of Trenton
Conrad Kotts married two Plaskett sisters — and stood at Trenton when Washington took it.
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