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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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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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Harrison Rich - Pipe Smoking Caused His Death
Harrison Rich survived the frontier but not his pipe.
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Jeanetta McCoy Rich - The Over-Dressed Grandmother
Short, stout, red-haired and dark-skinned, Jeanetta Rich dressed like a duchess and charmed like one too.
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Uncle Charley Sans - The Goatee Man
Uncle Charley Sans: French goatee, iron sinews, and a thirst that was its own legend.
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Reason Plaskett - Church Builder and Plant Collector
Born in a mining camp, Reason Plaskett built churches with one hand and collected rare plants with the other.
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Gordon Plaskett Dies in Plane Crash
Gordon Plaskett, one of Ed and Mabel's sons, died in a plane crash at King City in 1953.
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Kermit Plaskett - Bombardier Lost in English Channel
Bombardier Kermit Plaskett's bomber went into the English Channel and never came out.
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Curnell Horry Mansfield Killed by Runaway Horse
Curnell Mansfield married the first white child born in Mendocino County — and died under a runaway horse at 71.
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Charles Henry Plaskett Falls at Spreckels Sugar Refinery
Charles Henry Plaskett fell building the Spreckels sugar refinery in 1912, leaving five children.
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Alice Isabelle Plaskett Dies of Typhoid at 19
Typhoid took Alice Isabelle Plaskett at nineteen, at home, on an April evening in 1909.
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Jesse H. Plaskett Hit by Car on Highway
Walking back to Salinas in the dark, Jesse Plaskett was struck and killed on the highway.
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Violet Muriel Plaskett Dies After Cyrils Funeral
Violet Plaskett left her cousin Cyril's funeral and never made it home.