- California Southern
The importance of our railroad
The Southern Pacific had a monopoly on Southern California’s Transcontinental Railroads. Nothing came in or went out ...
- Summit Valley IV
Summit Valley I, Summit Valley II, Summit Valley III
Van Dusen Road/ Coxey Truck Trail from Cajon Summit to Holcomb Valley
He (Hoffman) ...
- Summit Valley III
Summit Valley Gallery I, Summit Valley II, Summit Valley IV
Summit Valley
Summit Valley
Summit Valley
Summit Valley
Cut in road near the summit
Cajon Summit
Summit Valley
Trail below ...
- The Rocks Speak
Rock – Mojave River, West Fork
Some rocks (not this one) will speak. I remember the first time a rock ever ...
- Afton Canyon
Afton Canyon
At the mouth of Afton Canyon, it may be easier to visualize a great lake, Lake Manix, breaching its shores and ...
- The Natural History of a Desert Raindrop
They were brothers, airborne, spiraling to earth together. Brothers as brothers can be, they remained brothers until they fell on the divide ...
- Mojave River Photos
Mojave River at Afton Canyon
Photos of the Mojave River from headwaters to termination
Mojave River Posts
Photos of the Mojave River from headwaters to ...
- Mojave River’s End
It is the strangest thing; the river; I follow it downstream and it becomes smaller and smaller and smaller. With every step, ...
- Lake Adelaide
by Walter Feller
A small dam was erected to raise the water level up against a gate to a flume that could be ...
- Technology Advancements in Wells
from; A Quick History of Water Wells
by Hanna Landis
Until the early 19th century, water wells were still dug by hand. In 1808 in ...
- End of the River
Rather than growing wider and emptying into the sea the Mojave River becomes smaller and smaller finding its way in the sand ...
- Cottonwoods with Character
Beware of the ‘TREENADO!’Mojave River, Victorville, Ca.
- West Fork – Mojave River
Just Sayin’
I suppose, if there is any hard and clear boundary to the Mojave Desert that this is where it is. Over ...
- Springs & Things — Before Time Began
I have heard that the Paiute Indians have a legend–a story they would tell about a giant who crossed the desert with ...
- The Black Bridge
“One of Victor’s (Jacob Nash Victor) greatest contributions was supervision of a number of bridges constructed in San Bernardino County. The first ...
- Victor Valley Crossings
Fr. Francisco Hermenegildo Tomás Garcés, (April 12, 1738 – July 18, 1781) was a Spanish priest who crossed the Mojave Desert in ...
- Crossing the Mojave: Kit Carson (1829)
Leaving the headwaters of the Verde River in Arizona the party traveled to the Colorado River to the Mohave villages scattered along ...
- Junior’s Ranch
Mrs. Kemper Campbell
by Eva Neal
Mrs. Kemper Campbell, with her husband and their law partner, Mr. Sorenson, acquired the Verde Ranch in 1924. ...
- Bear Lake, Baldwin Lake and Big Bear Lake
in the summer of 1845, Benjamin D Wilson, own part of the interest in the Jurupa Rancho, site of the present city ...
- Scouts & Scalps
The characteristic account of the hazards of traveling through the Mojave during pioneer days appears in the journal of General John Charles ...
- Indian Raids
In 1840, raiders under Peg-leg Smith and Wakara, an Indian renegade, made a simultaneous attack against a number of ranches in Southern ...
- Huntington’s Station
Huntington’s Station was the first trading post in the area, and although Heber Huntington only owned it from 1873 to 1878, it ...
- Farmland – Oro Grande
Farmland in Oro Grande
“During his years at the upper crossing, Captain Lane, as Aaron was known throughout much of his life in ...
