Historic Railroad Trestle Finds Its Legs
By Peg Crim and Joe Garcia Work continues on a historic train trestle that once transported people wanting to escape the desert heat and part of the logging industry in […]
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The Civilian Conservation Corps
By Pat Rand When Franklin Delano Roosevelt became President on March 4th, 1933, the country was in the midst of the worst depression ever experienced in the United States. It […]
Logging in the Sacramento Mountains, 1930-2001
By Pat Rand (Author’s Note: Material for this article came from the archives of the Sacramento Mountains Historical Museum and interviews with Bill Dees, Phil Fuller, and Mark Hare.) The […]
Gordon Wimsatt and His Famous Bear Grease
By Pat Rand G. Gordon Wimsatt, who was born on September 6th, 1915, came to the Sacramento Mountains with his parents, George and Johnnie Wimsatt, from Santa Rita, NM, in […]
Logging in the Sacramento Mountains, 1892-1927
By Pat Rand (Author’s Note: Material for this article came from the archives of the Sacramento Mountains Historical Museum and interviews with Bill Dees, Phil Fuller, and Mark Hare.) With […]