Tag: history
member name: Cecile V.
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November 14, 2006 07:31 PM EST --
My First Published Works
About a year and a half ago, my friend Robin Flinchum asked if I would submit a proposal to the First Annual Nevada Boomtown Conference. I had a little piece on the old silver . . .
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December 13, 2006 12:49 PM EST --
Exploring California's Early Christmas past
"Know then, that on the right hand of the Indies, there is an island called California, very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise, and it . . .
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October 27, 2006 02:24 PM EDT --
Uncle Walt had a plan for an amusement park and it was already in construction. However, he needed some publicity and some money for it, so struck a deal with the fledgling ABC network. The . . .
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November 13, 2006 08:54 PM EST --
note: This slice of California history is from my website this month. Thought I'd share it here for my gather friends, and would love to hear your comments.
From Freight Wagons To . . .
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November 04, 2006 01:29 PM EST --
Early California Thanksgiving
Part I: Please Pass The Jackrabbit
The first citizens of the newly created state of California were probably too busy to celebrate holidays, particularly . . .
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December 05, 2006 12:33 PM EST --
Yuletide Trails
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Merry Mining
Camp Days
Pioneer Christmas Trails
In the 1840s vast lands, rich in soil and precious minerals, lured hardy men and women across barren prairies and deserts, over . . .
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November 01, 2006 09:40 PM EST --
This is the final episode of an 8 piece adventure. The following link will take you to the first episode.
/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976817888
In Search of the Lost Gunsight Mine: The Final . . .
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December 10, 2006 06:30 PM EST --
This was written for my website a few years back. I also wrote the song, which can easily be sung to the tune of "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem"
Oh dusty town of Bodie!
How still we . . .
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October 29, 2006 01:22 PM EST --
This is part 7 in a series that I have been posting over the last week or so. I'm including the link to the first part here so that you can go back and retrace this story if you haven't . . .
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October 27, 2006 04:40 PM EDT --
A Brief History of Me!
My first trip to Yosemite was when I was 6 months old. Nature & outdoors must have been in my blood. The family camped several times a year, sometimes in the San Gabriel Mountains . . .
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November 04, 2006 08:29 PM EST --
The cry, "gold!" was shouted from Sutter's Fort in January of 1848 and the rush to California was on soon after. Within three years the non-Indian population swelled from 18,000 to 165,000. . . .
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November 11, 2006 01:29 PM EST --
California Dreaming On Thanksgiving . . .
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November 06, 2006 03:45 PM EST --
Note: The majority of my animals are named after ghosttowns or historical figures from my ghosttown. I occassionally write little blurps about them. Here's a typical weekend . . .
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November 27, 2006 11:50 PM EST --
Thanksgiving Travels Past And Future
We started out the big turkey day with close friends that we had all but lost touch with thanks to suburban time and distance. All gathered in rembrance . . .
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November 15, 2006 01:34 PM EST --
For days, the young people of the silver town of Cerro Gordo scoured the mountainsides for what native wildflowers and shrubbery they could find late in the month of August . . .
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November 05, 2006 04:08 PM EST --
The Masonic Log
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Poor Little Jake
Tour Guide In Training
I can remember it well. It was back in August of '92. I was just a young fellow, all of 8 months old, actually, and quite fit and trim compared . . .
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October 18, 2006 03:57 PM EDT --
Part I: /viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976817888
Part II More Tall Tales From This Mountaintop
Well, I've had quite the day. It was well after noon when I realized I had been at my computer . . .
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October 19, 2006 12:48 PM EDT --
part I /viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976817888
part II: /viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976818559
Part III The Tale Begins
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October 02, 2006 02:41 PM EDT --
Somewhere between Lone Pine and Death Valley, in a hot dusty, remote and desolate area, lies the mere shadow of a town called Darwin. The first white travelers to pass . . .
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October 09, 2006 08:19 PM EDT --
I don't know how I missed this in yesterday's Los Angeles Times! An article about my "ghosttown" away from home! Took an e-mail from a former co-worker and a message to me in . . .
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