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Two Branches, One Name - The Congresswoman and the Pioneer
Two centuries after a Plaskett ran a Caribbean plantation, a Plaskett represents those islands in Congress.
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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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E.R. Sans, “Coyote Man”, Mill Creek Saw Mill Operator Father of Mabel Plaskett
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The Bear Hunt Gone Wrong - Men Fall on Bear
The plan was flawless: wait in the tree above the bear's kill. Nobody consulted gravity — or the bear. A true Plaskett Creek comedy, retold.
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Vasquez the Bandit at Priest Valley
Mrs. Trescony, who lived to 97, remembered the day the bandit Vasquez came to her parents' Priest Valley ranch as a charming young man.
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The Tres Pinos Massacre
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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The Wagon Train Indian Incident
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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Sarah Plaskett - Banker for the Miners
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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The Literary Club and Band of Pacific Valley
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 the Daredevil Horseman
Ed Plaskett rode at a gallop along cliff edges that made grown men dismount and walk.
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Old Cap - The Eccentric Engineer
Orval Olmstead — 'Old Cap' to the children — brought the ways of a sailing ship to a cabin on Mill Creek.
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1791 Ohio River Indian Attack
On the Ohio River in 1791, the flatboat carrying William Plaskett's family came under attack.