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Loma Prieta Publishing Company, Santa Cruz, 1978. Paperback, vii, 159 pp.; 22 cm; First Edition; illustrated with black-and-white photographs and a map.
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In Good condition. Pictorial paper covers with light bumping to edges and corners, mild shelf wear and light soiling; toned strip along top edge of front cover and creasing to lower fore-edge corner. Plain rear cover with scattered foxing and a faint curved soil mark with a few small dark specks near lower center. Binding tight. Creasing to lower fore-edge corner of first several leaves; toning at gutter of title page. Mild foxing to edges of text block; pages lightly toned, otherwise unmarked. History of the pioneer period in the Summit Road area of the Santa Cruz Mountains, the ridge country between Los Gatos and Santa Cruz, drawn from settlers' memoirs, newspapers and family papers lent by descendants and quoted in the pioneers' own words. Covers the Spanish trail, the toll roads and stagecoaches, and the narrow-gauge South Pacific Coast Railroad, whose Summit tunnel collapsed in the 1906 earthquake. Also covers logging and F. A. Hihn's Laurel mill, the ridge orchards and vineyards, the mountain schools, and the handwritten Mountain Echoes journal of the Summit Literary Society (1881-1882). Family histories include Charles "Mountain Charley" McKiernan and the writer Josephine Clifford McCrackin. Published with grants from De Anza College students and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Cover photograph "High Gate" by Andrew P. Hill, the painter and photographer who led the 1899-1902 campaign to save the Big Basin redwoods. Contents: Preface; Acknowledgments; "A Howling Wilderness": The Summit Road Area, Santa Cruz Mountains; Transportation Through the Wilderness: Paths Under the Redwoods; Stagecoach Days in the Mountains; Whistles and Steam in the Canyons; Taming the Wilderness: Falling the Giants; Tilling the Soil; Culture in the Wilderness: Agricultural Societies; Social Clubs; Journals and Newspapers; Pioneers of the Wilderness: Early Settlers; Charles Henry McKiernan; The Schultheis Family; The Averill Family; The Burrell Family; The Wright Family; The Morrell Family; Josephine Clifford McCrackin; The Meyer Family; The Goldman Family; Conclusion; The End of the Wilderness: Patchen; Burrell; Highland-Skyland; Resorts; Selected Bibliography; Index.