Must be expert riders willing to risk death the daily. Wage is 25 a week, which is a large sum of money for the time period. But of course, risking death daily comes with this type of occupation. The telegraph comes across the prairie and often times the is stretchede across the sagebrush because there were very few trees even to this day across much of the expanse of the planes. With the telegraph laid out across the prairie, annals would run through it. Native americans learned the talking wireman more white people coming down the prairie. They would use it for ornamented accessories or jewelry, etc. The story of the trails ends with the Continental Railroad bringing in mass populations very rapidly through the western United States. It also begins a new chapter with the modern highway that we now have today. I hope visitors take away from the Interpretive Center here in appreciation of the people that settled the american west. They were not large people. They were tough people with
Then the indianhead canyon camp and down to this conjunction. E we are right now is near bend. Milespassing for several over the plains, the trail entered a beautiful pine forest in which we traveled for several hours. And that we descended into a valley of another large band. The street was very swift and eat. Among the timber here, it is over three feet in diameter. We have the side of the rainbow. Sitefremont came upon this on december 4. They had some cattle they are bringing along. Mules. D 104 horses and this time theyre using a teepee. Two American Indian guys. Here on thathrough day in the afternoon at least, you would see them putting up the teepee and several fires Getting Started and taking all of the material and so far out. He was busy writing in his journal and getting his equipment out to hopefully have the weather be such that he could get a lot of readings at night. When he was successful in reading the latitude, he was using a telescope and timing a particular moon go
A photographer or, who was a modernday rickey allying walker evans, we pulled off to the side of the road, came up over the road attracts, across this dirt road here, posthumous vineyard with hold up to shack. Basically a tar paper shack. As we walked up we could see there were rabbit furs that had been, that were hammered onto the wall. Remember knocking once, twice ive misplaced the sun still in the door creak open and there stood this black man, who looked a cute lifted out of the mrs. A 1930s. He had a stutter. Later he told us he cant bless with a stutter one state at a time. His name is james dixon. He was 95 and he was living here, happy to send the 40s. He was part of this migration . Who did something no blacks in america, kind of win against the grain of the great migration. The great migration within the south to North Industrial cities and came west to Oakland San Francisco and l. A. There was a tribe of black okies from the south and southwest, who wanted to retain the rur
A decade ago, if you drove down highway 99, that flat zipper of road down the heart of central california, and you look to the side of the road, you would see this shack standing, and i remember the first time i saw it, i thought, jeez, thats been lifted from the mississippi delta, 1930s, you know, who lived there . Well, as i was driving, you looked closer, there was puffs of smoke coming from the roof. It was not someone who lived there. Someone was still living here in the year 2002, 2003. One day, myself and matt black, a photographer who, you know, is kind of a modern day dorothy lang, evans, we pulledded off the side of the road, came over the Railroad Tracks across this little dirt road here, across from this vineyard, and we pulled up to the shack. It was in better shape then, but a tarp paper shack, and as we walked up, there were rabbit furs that had been that were hammered on to the wall. I remember knocking once, twice, and this place was on stilts. The door creeked open, a
End of the san joaquin valley. Bakersfield is the ninth largest city in california and the seed of Current County which ranks third in the u. S. For agriculture and oil related production. With the help of Bright House Networks the next hour well bring you to the birthplace of the bakersfield sound to learn about the citys history and meet the local authors. We begin our special look at bakersfield with a look at russos books a family owned and operated bookstore. I am Michael Russo of russos books and bakersfield california. We have been here 24 years. Its a family owned business my parents, my two sisters my brothers and myself. We are here every day and loving it. My mom is the leader of the family and we have always been retail and we grew up with books. The opportunity came that a used bookstore went up for sale and we wanted to dive into the self ownership and own our own business. We saw bookstore globe for sale. It was a used bookstore and we jumped at the opportunity and it ha