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Big Bear (Paperback)
Stanley E. Bellamy, Russell L. Keller
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In 1845, Benjamin Davis Wilson--the future first mayor of Los
Angeles and the grandfather of Gen. George S. Patton--led 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. Wilson's men soon roped 11 bears,
bringing the creatures into camp, and the valley the Serrano
Indians knew as Yuhaviat, or "Pine Place," received a new map
designation. Wilson named a nearby body of water Big Bear Lake (now
Baldwin Lake, with the present-day, man-made lake co-opting the
bruin moniker). Today, at elevations between 6,000 and 9,000 feet,
the city of Big Bear Lake is an hour and a half from Los Angeles
and a million miles from the rat race, where hiking, sports, and
the absence of exertion thrive in a vacation atmosphere.
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Big Bear (Hardcover)
Stanley E. Bellamy, Russell L. Keller
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R842
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Discovery Miles 6 910
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