HISTORY OF THE SANTA CLARITA VALLEY BY JERRY REYNOLDS
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CONTENTS

Preface Prologue 1. A Valley Takes Shape 2. Where Eagles Dare 3. Man Arrives 4. Children of Nature 5. Tribal Relics 6. Winds of Change 7. Spain Reconnoiters 8. The Feast 9. The Trail Blazer 10. Solitary Hiker 11. Ferdinand's Grasp 12. Staking Claim 13. Insurrection 14. Lord and Master 15. Family Squabbles 16. Golden Dreams 17. Yanks Infiltrate 18. The Pathfinder 19. Paradise Found 20. An Eager Market 21. Buttons and Bows 22. Breaching the Pass 23. The Beasts of Tejon

24. Wordsmiths 25. Rest Stop 26. Twilight of the Dons 27. Mining the Soledad 28. Monarch of All He Surveys 29. Barbaric Elegance 30. The North Forty 31. Rivers of Oil 32. Gushers and Glory 33. Song of the Soledad 34. Bandido! 35. Reign of Terror 36. Taming the Territory 37. A New Beginning 38. The Loud Neigh 39. Ribbons of Steel 40. A Town is Born 41. Baron of Casteca 42. The Pioneer 43. Boom Town 44. The Governor 45. Father of Acton 46. Surrey 47. Dry Colony 48. King Borax

49. Reflections 50. The Chief 51. The Settlers 52. Servicing the Traveler 53. Two-Gun Bill 54. Disaster at 185 Feet 55. Fights and Feuds 56. Eureka 57. Forest Interlude 58. Pistoleros 59. Mixville 60. Melody 61. The Chroniclers 62. Suddenly Searchlights 63. Confusion Hill 64. End of an Era 65. Transitions 66. New Town 67. Magic 68. Sagebrush Reservoirs 69. Rebels With a Cause 70. Birth of a City 71. Requiem Epilogue Bibliography Notes

Also by Jerry Reynolds:
• Ethnography of Castaic
• Bowers Cave • 12-14-1984
• First Presbyterian Church • June 1986
• About the Namesakes of the Kingsburry House • 1989-1993.

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