Our hill ranch has given me a new sense of appreciation for history. I’ve recently been investigating the history of our property for reasons that I’ll explain in later posts. It turns out that the first owners of our ranch were immigrants that purchased land created by the Homestead Act of 1862. Before that, it [...]
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The Homesteaders
Posted in camp stories, Land Patents, Ranch History, tagged Homestead Act of 1862, Land Patents, Section Land, Sunol History on May 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Camp Stories – The Pocket Gopher and the Broad-footed Mole
Posted in camp stories, Hunting, outdoors, wildlife, tagged camp stories on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While sitting around camp, I had a couple new sets of ears to listen to one of my favorite stories about a pocket gopher that climbed out of his hole while I sat glassing for blacktail in Klamath National Forest. As I sat on a ridge overlooking some pretty nice habitat where I spotted a [...]
Uncommon Sense
Posted in camp stories, fiction, tagged camp stories on January 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I knew LR Teeken for two hunting seasons before I ever questioned the source of his name. I’d heard a few of his close friends refer to him as “Lightning.” and I’d mistakenly assumed it was a sarcastic expression as LR never responded to anybody very quickly. Upon learning of my misunderstanding, and that [...]
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