Monterey
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Riding with Ed Culver: When the Mailman Was the Coast
Mabel wrote him up in 1961: the mailman who filled grocery orders and played bass viol in the symphony. Her grandson rode in his van to Monterey — back when the coast ran on trust.
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Jade Cove Today: Hunting Green Stone on Mabel's Coast
Sixty-some years after Mabel sent her readers to Jade Cove, her great-grandson climbed down the rope to the same tideline — and the green stone is still there.
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California-Oregon Coastline Unfolds Majestic Panorama
Two coast natives drive north to Oregon and back — Mabel's own road trip up the Pacific edge she loved, September 1961.
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Camp Pico Blanco Is Ideal For Scout Summer Activity
In the Ventanas — 'the Windows' — below Pico Blanco, the Boy Scouts made a summer camp of the old Harlan country.
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Dani Family History Is Told
A shelf of level land a thousand feet above the sea: the Dani place, where Gabriel Dani built a one-armed empire and Lucia got her name.
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Dolan Creek Named After Early Coast Homesteader
Eccentric Phillip Dolan trusted no bank, drove his cattle to Monterey alone, and left a thousand dollars sewn in an old coat.
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ER Sans Nevada History
Her father in full: Edward R. Sans, farmer, lumberman, explorer — Nevada's 'Coyote Man,' the government's legendary predator hunter.
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Few Drives as Scenic as Coast’s Cabrillo Highway
Where does Big Sur begin and end? Mabel settles it, then takes you the whole way — San Simeon to Point Lobos, stop by stop. Now with our interactive map and free PDF drive guide.
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Forget Your Worldly Cares At Nepenthe Restaurant
'Wherever you may go, people ask about Nepenthe' — the cliff-top restaurant where the coast forgets its worldly cares.
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Henry Melville Attracted to Coast by Los Burros Gold
Giant-strong Henry Melville came to Los Burros for the gold — and left stories they still tell: robbers thrown from his cabin, a loaded wagon lifted bare-handed.
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Huge, Spouting Whales a Common Sight Along Coast
Every October the gray whales stream south past the coast to calve in Baja — a migration the coast families set their calendars by.
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Jaime d’Angula- A Symbol of Man’s Right to Freedom
The strangest of all the Big Sur characters: Jaime de Angulo — Paris-born doctor, cowboy, linguist — riding the ridges as a symbol of man's right to be free.
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Jolon Remembered as Thriving Community on Camino Real
Portolá camped there in 1769; a century later Jolon was the thriving crossroads of the Camino Real — saloons, hotels, and fiestas three days long.
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Lopez Point Perpetuates Name of Early Settlers
Manuel Lopez came from Mexico about 1870 and built by the sea at the point that keeps his name — through fortune, rodeo trophies, and terrible loss.
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Lots of Jade…Rugged Monterey Coast Line Is Paradise for Rock Hounds
'Petrified dragon tears': the Chinese revered jade for centuries — and the Monterey coast serves it up to any rock hound patient enough. The article behind our Jade Cove story.
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Mailmen Are Important Link In Coast Country History
Before 1890 the mail came by horseback from Jolon. Seventy years of coast mail carriers — including the Plaskett boys swimming icy rivers with the pack mule.
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Mansfields Were Pacific Valley Pioneers
From Indian shell beds to a 4,000-acre cattle empire — the Mansfields, who came to Pacific Valley when the lilac grew as tall as trees.
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Mother Krenkel- A Coast Legend
City-bred Margaret Krenkel rode a mule to her own wedding at Los Burros and dug her well by hand — the real-life 'Hannah' of the coast.
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One of Few Remaining Jolon Indians Resides in Lockwood
In an old adobe near Lockwood lives Joe Moro, one of the last of the Jolon Indians — his mother born of the mission people under the great oaks.
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Pacific Hot Springs Lodge Is A Popular Coast Spa
On the old Esselen encampment above the sea, Hot Springs Lodge draws bathers from around the world — the place we now call Esalen.
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Pacific Ocean Holds Wide Fisherman, Vacationer Appeal
Byron's 'deep and dark blue ocean' — the fishermen, abalone hunters, and vacationers drawn to the coast's edge, in Mabel's salute to the sea itself.
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Pacific Valley Gold Claims Still Producing
A dozen mining claims on Plaskett Ridge — including the arrastra her husband's grandfather built — and the gold still waiting in the family's hills.
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Parishioners’ Labor Has Built St. Luke’s
In 1884 three Plaskett brothers rode horseback from Pacific Valley to Jolon to raise a church — St. Luke's, built by its parishioners, standing yet.
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People From Every Walk of Life Lured by Coast Magic
Gorda: a handful of buildings against the pines, and a cast of characters from every walk of life — including an instant-portrait artist in the hills.
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Plaskett Creek Campground Is Popular Vacation Spot
The campground at Plaskett Creek sits on the family's first homesite — Mabel tells how the pioneers came over the Indian trails from Jolon.
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Prized Possession of the Coast Are Its Big Trees
'My earliest memories are of playing house in a hollow redwood' — Mabel on the big trees, oldest of living things and the coast's proudest possession.
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Quaint Big Sur Inn Is Work Of the ‘Master Builder’
Grandpa Deetjen's hand-built Norwegian inn at Castro Canyon — rustic rooms, record concerts, and the 'Master Builder' himself.
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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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San Simeon Rancho Story Is Told by Mabel Plaskett
Cabrillo's 'Bay of Sardines,' a whaling captain's store, the Hearst boys at play — four centuries of San Simeon in one telling. Sebastian's Store was 102 years old when she wrote it.
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Sea Otter Population on the Upswing Along the Coast
Hunted to near-extinction for their fur, the sea otters were rediscovered off Bixby Bridge in 1938 — and by Mabel's day were thriving down the whole coast.
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Ship Wrecks Stressed Need For Point Sur Lighthouse
The wrecks of the Los Angeles and the Ventura — 150 victims clinging to rigging, salvaged linens dressing the coast ranches — made the case for Point Sur's light.
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South Monterey County Writers Part II
A 2007 appreciation of Mabel herself — 'Belle' Sans Plaskett with her horse Cleo — by historian Susan Raycraft.
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Tony Vasquez – Story of a Horseman
Born in the Palo Corona hills, burned out at five, an expert rider by eight — Tony Vasquez, the coast's legendary horseman.
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View from Lucia Lodge Draws Thousands of Guests Each Year
In 1932 the road ended at Krenkel Corners; beyond lay wilderness. Lucia Lodge grew where the trail gave out — and the veranda still hangs over the sea.
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Willey Cruikshank - Mining Was His Life
The boy who watched Chinese miners pan Salmon Creek struck the Last Chance mine — and vanished into the Lucias in 1937. His life, told by a woman who knew him.
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“Old Rocky” – A Tale of the Mighty Hunter of the Lucias
Absolam Beasley — 'Old Rocky,' raised with an Indian tribe in the Rockies — the mighty hunter who kept the Lucias' lions honest.
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History of Coast Schools Part 2
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Rugged Monterey Coast Line Is Paradise for Rock Hounds
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Aerial Applicators Create New Image
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E.R. Sans, “Coyote Man”, Mill Creek Saw Mill Operator Father of Mabel Plaskett
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A Deer Hunt - 56-Page Narrative of Pioneer Life
The best record of pioneer life is a 56-page comedy Mabel helped live: the great deer hunt of 1910.
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Evans Family Voyage on Sierra Nevada
The Evans family came down the coast on a side-wheeler with their cattle penned above the paddle wheel.
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S.S. Los Angeles Shipwreck at Point Sur
When the S.S. Los Angeles struck at Point Sur in 1873, Dr. Roberts rode from Monterey in three and a half hours.
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Harlan Family Sea Adventure to Point Sur
Mrs. Harlan asked about packing a lunch for the boat trip to Monterey. She should have packed for a week.
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Julia Pfeiffer Burns - Pioneer Rancher
Julia Pfeiffer shod horses, plowed, hayed, roped and rode with any man on the coast — and better than most.
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Phillip Dolan Leaves $1000 in Coat
Phillip Dolan trusted no bank. When he died, they found a thousand dollars sewn in his old coat.
Everyone the family archive records in the story of this place. Descendants: if one of these is yours, we’d love to hear from you.
- Mabel Eva Sans Plaskett 1896–1964 · 9 stories
- Ed Dutton · 5 stories
- Byron Plaskett 1835–1906 · 4 stories
- George Harlan 1885– · 4 stories
- Alice Dutton · 3 stories
- Jasper Mansfield 1860– · 3 stories
- Wilbur Harlan 1882–1881 · 3 stories
- Alvis Davis · 2 stories
- Billy Plaskett 1890–1961 · 2 stories
- Bob Digges · 2 stories
- Camp Lewis · 2 stories
- Charles Sans Sr 1838– · 2 stories
- Dudley Plaskett 1869–1949 · 2 stories
- Frank Digges · 2 stories
- George Dutton · 2 stories
- Henry Kilsdonk · 2 stories
- James M. Krenkel 1862–1943 · 2 stories
- Jessie Anderson · 2 stories
- Joe Moro · 2 stories
- John Burns 1865– · 2 stories
- Laurence Thomas · 2 stories
- Lawson McKern Plaskett 1883–1966 · 2 stories
- Lucy Plaskett Davis 1886–1975 · 2 stories
- Luneta Thelen · 2 stories
- Margaret Voss Krenkel 1874–1964 · 2 stories
- Marion Plaskett 1848–1906 · 2 stories
- Olive Plaskett 1882–1939 · 2 stories
- Paul Harlan · 2 stories
- Phillip Dolan 1845–1909 · 2 stories
- Robert Plaskett 1835–1908 · 2 stories
- Sarah E. Ray Sans 1854– · 2 stories
- William D. "Willey" Cruikshank 1862–1937 · 2 stories
- William Nicholas Alderson 1956– · 2 stories
- William Plaskett 1812– · 2 stories
- Albert Sans 1908–
- Alfred Davis 1912–
- Alonzo Davis 1880–
- Alvin Dani
- Amos Mansfield 1741–1795
- Angie Potter
- Barbara Locke Pfeiffer 1830–
- Bessie Robinson
- Calvin Coolidge
- Cape Horn
- Carsten Voss 1835–
- Charley Digges
- Charley Krenkel 1906–1989
- Charley Plaskett 1872–
- Clarence Plaskett 1888–1916
- Curnell H. Mansfield 1835–1906
- Dave Moro
- Don Pancho Estrada
- Edward Abbott Plaskett 1881–1973
- Edward Robert Sans 1875–1958
- Fanny Plaskett Mansfield 1916–1973
- Father Juan Cabot
- Fred Harlan 1890–
- Gabriel Dani 1832–1908
- Gabriel Fontes 1850–
- George Ames 1849–1931
- Lavina Jane Wagner 1835–1921 · died here
- Gaspare Minetti 1838–1917 · died here
- Giuditta Rianda 1845–1915 · died here
- John William Draper 1893–1964 · died here
- Jennie Bernice Plaskett Anderson 1898–1964 · lived or worked here
- Olive Hyacinth Sans Plaskett 1898–1936 · died here
- Claude Adolph McCandless 1901–1978 · born here
- Edith Natalie Merritt 1921–1983 · born here
- Glenn Draper 1928–1985 · died here
- Mabel Genevive Sans Draper 1929–1986 · born here
- Lewis Martin Mozzini 1936– · born here
- Joanne Presson 1939– · born here
- Jim Mozzini 1944– · born here
- Judith Olive Merritt 1949– · born here
- Daniel Harless 1960– · born here
- Irene Margaret Bray 1963– · born here
- Laura Frances Giudici 1963– · born here
- Elizabeth Jeanette Farmer 1978– · born here
- Dale Edmund Farmer –2016 · died here
- Frank Mozzini –1940 · died here