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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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True stories of the Plasketts and their neighbors — bears and gold, shipwrecks and weddings — drawn from letters, newspapers, and family memory.
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The Rattlesnake on the Mail Trail
A rattlesnake struck Ed Plaskett's horse on the mountain mail trail. The horse left the county. The story has a happy ending — eventually.
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The Guano Harvest: Farming the Top of Plaskett Rock
Ed Plaskett and his brothers built a way to the top of Plaskett Rock — where centuries of seagulls had left a crown of first-rate fertilizer, free for the scraping.
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Phil McGuire the Instant Portrait Artist
Phil McGuire of Gorda could look at your face and hand you your portrait minutes later.
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William Lucas Plaskett with Fremonts Party at Carson Sink
At Carson Sink in 1848, the Plaskett wagon company fell in with John C. Frémont's party.
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William Lucas, Doctor of the Cholera Camps
No physician within a hundred miles — so the William & Mary man nursed the cholera camps of Sacramento, and set the coast's bones ever after.
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William Lucas Plaskett Revolutionary War Family
His father fought the Revolution; his uncle crossed the Delaware. William Lucas came from fighting stock.
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Linwood Mitchell Brings Luther Burbank Plants to Coast
In 1898 Linwood Mitchell packed Luther Burbank's cuttings down the coast and planted a legend.
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Marion Plaskett Apple Tree Famous on Coast
One gnarled survivor of Marion Plaskett's orchard fed the whole coast apples of impossible size.
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Albert Barnes Orchard on Pepperwood Ridge
Sarah's brother Albert Barnes proved up a quarter-section on Pepperwood Ridge and set it to fruit trees.
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Marno Dutton Recalls Giant Apples at Cruikshank Orchard
Marno Dutton remembered Cruikshank apples so big a child could eat only half of one.
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Mendocina First White Child
Born in Anderson Valley in 1856, Mendocina Plaskett was the first white child born in Mendocino County.
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