Big Bear Inyo National Forest from the time of the

from the time of the Gold Rush to the present

with a new foreword by James Agee

the remains of which may be seen in the failed real estate developments that sprawl beside the sea

and map selection

Big Bear Inyo National Forest from the time of theIn 1845, Benjamin Davis Wilsonthe future first mayor of Los Angeles and the grandfather of Gen. George S. Pattonled a 20 man posse into the San Bernardino Mountains in search of Native American raiding parties that had been attacking Riverside ranches. But what they found in a particular high altitude valley were, instead, large and furry. Wilsons men soon roped 11 bears, bringing the creatures into camp, and the valley the Serrano Indians knew as