The National Forest was first established locally in 1898 and named the “Pine Mountain Forest Reserve” for a mountain by…
For centuries people have followed the ancient animal trails through what has become known as San Emigdio Canyon. Making use…
JOHN FLETCHER CUDDY John Cuddy left Ireland during the potato famine of the 1840’s. So many Irish were coming during…
One of the unique experiments in America’s military history was the U.S. Army’s Camel Corp. In 1855, after a good…
Few locations in California remain as they were before the Spanish arrived but Ranchos el Tejon does. Thriving Native American…
Sam Bishop was born in Virginia in 1825 to a family that soon moved on to Missouri. As a young…
Edward Beale came to the future area of California from New England as a young Navy Lieutenant in the Mexican…
The area around the present Quail Lake has had a varied and interesting history. Located on the San Andreas earthquake…