Description
Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, SC, Published 2007. Paperback, 127 pp.; 24 cm; illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Glossy pictorial paper covers feature a sepia-toned photograph of three hunters standing among pines, with "Images of America / Running Springs" lettered in white on a black banner; covers show mild shelf wear with light bumping to corners. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked.Volume in Arcadia Publishing's Images of America series. Author Stanley E. Bellamy, a Running Springs resident since 1953, assembled over 500 vintage photographs (some dating to 1869) documenting the San Bernardino Mountains communities of Running Springs, Arrowbear Lake, and Green Valley Lake. Covers the region's nineteenth-century Mormon lumbering operations, the Brookings family's narrow-gauge railroad and Shay locomotives, the Fredalba and Smiley Park tourist resorts, and early twentieth-century community development. Many photos from the John E. Brookings collection appear here for the first time.Contents: Acknowledgments; Introduction; Of Steel, Steam, and Stamina; Running Springs Park; Arrowbear Lake; Green Valley Lake.