Download or read book The Cajon Pass written by Alice Eby Hall and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California bloomed when modern men conquered Cajon Pass. California's two transverse (east to west) mountain ranges, the San Gabriel and San Bernardino, prevented commerce east between two-thirds of Southern California and the rest of the state. Cajon Pass, the low point between the two ranges, was first opened to business by roads that generally followed old Native American trails. When railroads pierced the divide in 1885, Northern and Southern California and states to the east benefitted. Utility trunks followed: first electrical power in about 1912, followed by telephone, and finally natural-gas pipelines. Courageous, tireless, independent pioneers settled Cajon Pass while looking for gold, mining lime, and nursing water from the ground to satisfy needs of livestock and crops. Even today, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific Railroads run their busiest freight transport tracks through Cajon Pass, and Highway 15 competes successfully with its more western counterpart, Highway 5, for record numbers of vehicles per day moving north and south through California.
Download or read book A Tour of Historical Cajon Pass written by Arda M. Haenszel and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Cajon Pass written by Arda M. Haenszel and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cajon Pass written by Alice Eby Hall and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California bloomed when modern men conquered Cajon Pass. California's two transverse (east to west) mountain ranges, the San Gabriel and San Bernardino, prevented commerce east between two-thirds of Southern California and the rest of the state. Cajon Pass, the low point between the two ranges, was first opened to business by roads that generally followed old Native American trails. When railroads pierced the divide in 1885, Northern and Southern California and states to the east benefitted. Utility trunks followed: first electrical power in about 1912, followed by telephone, and finally natural-gas pipelines. Courageous, tireless, independent pioneers settled Cajon Pass while looking for gold, mining lime, and nursing water from the ground to satisfy needs of livestock and crops. Even today, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific Railroads run their busiest freight transport tracks through Cajon Pass, and Highway 15 competes successfully with its more western counterpart, Highway 5, for record numbers of vehicles per day moving north and south through California.
Download or read book The Man Who Built Camp Cajon written by Sandy Hockaday and published by Trails & Tales of Cajon Pass. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you like old photos and rich, documented Route 66 history including many of the people, places and things of that era: THIS IS IT!Camp Cajon, built next to a stream on historic ground in Cajon Pass, Gateway to Southern California, 65 miles east of Los Angeles and about 20 miles northwest of San Bernardino was a dream come true.Built in 1919 by William Marion Bristol on the site of the ancient Indian village at the junction of the Spanish and Salt Lake Trails, with Route 66 going right through the middle of it, Camp Cajon became the most famous and talked about rest stop, auto camp and picnic area anywhere along Route 66.It lies buried and almost forgotten today under the modern Interstate 15 northbound, truck scales and McDonalds. William Marion Bristol traveled the local mountains in the mid-1880s by burro and later wrote stories of his travels, the habitat, hunters, miners, hermits and others he met along the trail. Without these written accounts, their names would have been forgotten.All this and more in this first in a series of books, Trails and Tales of the Cajon Pass by John and Sandy Hockaday.Desert historian Clifford Walker, Archaeologist Joan Oxendine, BLM, Desert Region, Nick Cataldo, San Bernardino Historical Society, and others who read the first edition, all agree, "It's a fascinating description of life in the first half of the last century".
Download or read book Old Spanish Trail South written by Transierra Roisterous Alliance of Senior Humbugs and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wrightwood Big Pines written by Pat Krig and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled at 6,000 feet in the San Gabriel Mountains, the village of Wrightwood sits amidst a mountain range next to the finest ski slopes east of Los Angeles. This picturesque community has been a cherished mountain retreat removed from the hustle and bustle of city life, where skyscrapers give way to towering pine trees and roads run parallel to trails and ski runs. During the early twenties, the area's appeal as a gorgeous setting for hiking and other outdoor activities led the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to develop a year-round recreational facility west of Wrightwood, known as Big Pines County Park. Now a haven for commuters, Wrightwood remains a close-knit community despite the influx of more than half a million skiers and mountain lovers annually.
Download or read book A History of California written by Robert Glass Cleland and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume ... aims to complement the work of Dr. Charles E. Chapman, whose History of California : the Spanish period, has already been published."--Preface.
Download or read book The San Bernardinos the mountain country from Cajon Pass to Oak Glen two centuries of changing use written by John W. Robinson and published by . This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book History of San Bernardino Valley from the Padres to the Pioneers 1810 1851 written by Juan Caballería y Collell and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cultural Resources of the California Desert 1776 1880 written by Elizabeth Warren and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book History of San Bernardino County California written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
