WELCOME TO ALL

An explanation of this website follows. Above is a line with four items: HOME HISTORY LIBRARY CONTACT

Under HOME: My picture with a large Sequoia.

Under HISTORY: Two stories about my activities.

Under LIBRARY:almost 400 stories.

Under CONTACT: My e-mail address sonny@ocsnet.net

Now a few facts: I was born in 1919 on a farm near Kingsburg, CA.  A farm my grandfather had bought in 1870. He came on the Oregon Trail from Iowa as a teenager.                                                       

• Tulare Lake                         1
• Arctic Redwood Fossils   2
• The Redwood Story         3
• Start the Redwood Story   4
• Jordan Peak                      5
• Needles Lookout              6
• Tule River Geology           7
• Mule Peak Lookout           8
• Fire                                   9
• The sinking of the Princess Sophia  10
• The History of the Kern Valley       11
• The History of Ponderosa               12
• The Jordan Trail                             13                          
• Hospital Rock                                14
• Jedidiah Smith arrives                     15
• History of the Wishon Trail             16
• History of Porterville                      17
• LosAngeles Water                          18
• History of Mineral King                   20
• The  History of Windmills                21
• The Tule River War                        22
• The History of Visalia                    23
• The History of Springville              24
• The Mccombers of Camp Nelson 25
• The Andreas Fault                        26
• The Mountain Home Forest by Balch Park 27
• The Tule River Indian Reservation               28
• The Butterfield Express                               29
• The Pony Express                                      30
• The Kern River                                          31
• Sequoia and Kings Canyon                        32
• Kern County                                             33
• Geology of Southern Sierras                      34
• Great Dam Building                                   35
• The forty Niners                                        36
• The Discovery of Gold                              37
• The Old Enterprise Mill                             38
• The Geology of Lake Tahoe                      39
• The Oregon Trail                                       40
• Our Scotch Irish Heritage                          41
• The Cousin Jack Miners                            42
• The History of Skagway                            43
• Mt.Lassen HotspotT                            45
• History Platetectonics                          46
• Josiah Whitney                                    47
• The Survey of Yosemite Valley            48
• The Great Diamond Hoax                    49
• The Skunk Works                               50
• The Long Valley Caldera                     51
• The Mt. Lassen Caldera                      52
• The Yellowstone Caldera                    53
• The History of Exeter                          54
• Bakersfield Floods                              55
• New Almanden Quicken Silver Mine   56
• The History of Bakersfield                   57
• Saving the Golden Trout                      58
• The Orignal Tulare County                   59
• The History and Naming Dinuba          60
• The Alta Irrigation District                   61
• Drakes Brass Plate                             62
• Civilian Conservation Corps CCC      63
• Old Farmers Almanac                        64                                              
• History of the Clovis People               65
• A Very Ancient Flood                        66
• Lumber Flume to Sanger                    67
• The History of Manifest Destiney        68
• Electricity for Farmers                         69
• History of Madera                              70
• Early History SanJoaquin Valley         71                           
• The Criminals Sontag and Evans          72
• The History of the Kaweah Colony     73  
• The Santa Fe Trail                              74                           
• The History of Johnsondale                 75                 
• The Dana Family of Nipomo               76
• Predicting Earthquakes                       77
• Drilling the San Anddreas Fault           78
•   John Eastwood                                 79             
• The  Yocut Indians                              80
• Men, Mules and Mountains                 81
• The Midas Touch                               82
• The History of Fresno                        83
• More Condor History                        84
• Amos Alonzo Stagg                           85
• History of the Radio Flyer Wagon      86
• The History of Jack Cheese               87
• Early Horse Theft in California           88
• The Aqueduct Water for LA              89
• A Short History of LA                       90
• William Mulholland deeds for LA       91
• California State Water Project           92
• The History of Bodie                         93
• History SanLuisObispo                     94
• Morro Bay                                       95
• A Story of the Clovis People            96
• History of the SanFrancisco Presidio 97
• The Monterey Custom House           98
• The Paul Bunyan Day                       99
• History Walker Pass                       100
• Building the Golden Gate Bridge     101
• A Saga of Murder at Camp Nelson 102
• Some Very Good Facts                  103
• The History of Bass Lake               104
• Sir Thomas Crapper                      105                    
• History Four Creek Area              106
• California Story                            107
• Kern Valley Blood Feud              108
• The Golden Gate Bridge              109
• The Great Famine of Ireland         110
• The Butterfield Mail Express         111   
• One of the Seven Wonders of the World  112
• The Giant Sequoia                             113
• the Salton Sea                                   114
• Custers Last Stand                            115
• Engineer John Eastwood                   116 
• The Boole Tree                                117
• Fort Tejon                                       118
• Kings River                                     119
• Amargosa River                              120
• Death Valley's Lake Manly             121
• Minter Field History                        122
• Famous John Muir                          123
• Lemore Navel Airbase                    124
• A History of Kernvalley                  125
• The Great Pig War                         126
•   A History of  Virginia City          127
• The Tulare Agriculture Farm Show 128
• A History of Morro Bay                  129
• The Bridge of the Gods                   130
• The Mussel Slough Tragedy            131
• Russia Shots Down Gary Powers   132
• Ca. Highway No. 1                         133
• Dana's Two Years Before the Mast 134
• The Texas City Disaster                  135
• The Fight at OK Corral                   136     
•      
• The Dawn Redwood                       137
• James McKinney Portervile criminal  138
• History of Google                                139
• historycomputors                                 140
• History Irvine Ranch                           141
• History Dana Adobe Ranch                142
• National History Trails                      143
• Human Evulution                               144
• History WWW                                  145
• History IBM                                     146
• Nevada Nuclear Test Site                147
• The Doolittle Raid                           148
• The California Condor                    149
• The Central Valley Water Project  150
• The Gadsen Purchase                     151
• A History of The Tejon Ranch       152
• History of Guide Dogs                   153
• History of Cotton                           154
• History Early california Railroads 155
• The dreadnought Hoax                    156
• South Pole Telescope                     157
• Indepence Rock Story                     158
• Dark Energy Facts                          159
• History Levi Straus Jeans               160
•  Goodyear's Story of Rubber        161                          
• MRI Invention                               162
• Nevada Gambling                         163
• Pan Am The Great Airline            164
• Historic Gilded Age                     165
• Farm Equipment Development     166
• Mystery Winchester House          167
• Story Kit Carson                          168
• Early Oil Driller Edwin Drake    169
• Story Wikipedia                           170
• History of the Abacus                   171
• History Your Mouse                     172
• History Easter Egg                       173
• Alfred Nobel Peace Prize            174
• History GPS                                 175
• Hydrualic Goldmining                  176
• Story of Ishi                                  177
• The Bis Bang                                178
• Compass                                       179
• History Iceland                             180
• Story Alexander Von Humboldt   181
• History Caterpillar (Cat) Tractor 182
• California Foods                          183
• Glomar Challenger Research        184
• Invention Telephone                      185
• Geology Mid Ocean Spreading     186
• History Leonardo de Vinci            187
• The First Man on The Moon          188
• Story of Burma Shave                    189
• The Trail of Tears                         190
• Forming Iceland                            191
• History Cheese                              192
• History Slot Machines                   193
• History of the Ice Man                   194
• History of Tea                               195
• Origan of Species Darwin             196
• Domestication of Ancient Cattle    197
• History PuertoRico                        198
• Amos Alanzo Stagg                       199
• Tule Tribal Council                      200
• The Last Ice Age                           201
• Body Language                             202
• Canadian Diamond Mines            203
• The First wheel Invention            204
• Story of Salmon                           205
• History US Postal Service          206
• History UPS                                207
• The Federal Highway System     208
• The Story of Facebook                209
• The Story of Youtube                  210
• Ancient Story of Gold                 211
• The Pacific Crest Trail               212
• New Wars Cyber Warfar            213
• Small Nuclear Power Reactors   214
• Starting Greenwich Meridiam Time215
• Highway 190                                   216
• History Kern Valley                        217
• Ascension Island                             218
• Porterville History                          219
• Wikipedia History                          220
• The Bridge of the Gods                  221
• The Dawn Redwood Tree             222
• The Amos Alanzo Stagg Tree       223
• Amos Alanzo Stagg                      224
• The First Railroads for California 225
• History of the Applegate Trail       226
• Early California History                227
• History of the Fresno Scraper        228
• Bass Lake History                          229
• Fresno Under Ground Gardens      230                  
• History E.Clampus Vitus               231
• History Golden Fruit Of California 232
• History Lemoncove Ca.                   233
• Sunmaid Raisons                             234
• History Sunkist Oranges                  235
• Finding the Tallest Trees                236
• A Story of the Valley Tree              237
• The DNA story                               238
• Cloud Computing                           239
• Magma on the Moon                      240
• Mountain Home State Forest         241
• The Getteysberg Address              242
• The Winchester Abbey                  243
• Missoula Floods                           244
• Wikileaks                                     245
• Story Colt Revolver                     246
• Justice John Marshall                   247
• Juan Trippe of Air Fame              248
• The Tule River                            249
• The Smithsonian Institute            250
• Ignor Sikorsky Aircraft Designer 251
• Oleander Poison along Highways 252
• Didital Cameras                            253
• Wright Bros. First Flight               254
• Lindberg Flys Atlantic                  255
• Will Rogers a good GUY             256
• Elisha Otes invents safe ELEVATOR 257
• History Navigation Chronometer   258
• Ancient Food Revolution               259
• Widening the Panama Canal          260                  
• Growing Hops for Your Beer       261
• Boswell Cotton King                    262
• Our Ancient Relatives                  263
• The Development of Corn            264
• The Gloch Pistol                          265
• Ancient Chinese Travels              266
• DC Power from Bonneville         267
• The Power for REDCAR Street Cars 268
• More about RED CARS tive               269
•                                                            
• The Cororon Prison                     271
• The Shay Logging Locomotive    270
• Henry Huntington of the RED CARS 271
• Tulare Wild Horses                           272
• Sequoias Of Converse Basin             273
• Fame of the Huntington Name            274
• Horse Hair Worms                             275
•            
• History Playing Cards                        277
• Mt Diablo                                          278
• History Route 66                               279
• Story Pahrump Nevada                     280
• The Dust Bowel                               281
• Water for LA from Mono Basin       282     
• The Harvey Girls                             283
• History of Clicking Glasses             284
• History National Trail                     285
• History Northwest Passage              286
• History Drinking Alcohol                287
• Mammoth Ski Resort                       288
• Klondike Gold                                289
• Klondike Cultural Effects               290
• Ageing Our Earth                           291
• History Appleseed John                292
• California Land Grants                 293
• Obtaining Land in California        294
• The BearFlag Revolt                    295
• History Fremont in California      296
• Our Man Thomas Jefferson          297
• President Ronald Reagan             298
• Victor Davis Hanson                   299
• Clarence Berry makes Millions   300
• Naming California                       301
• Start of Hearst Millions              302
• History Hollywood                     303
• St Francis Dam Disaster             304
• Climbing Mt. Everest                 305
• Dishonest Media                        306
• Powell Down Colorado River   307
• Historic SantFe Trail                 308                         
• Columbia Ice Age Results          309
• Pinnacles National Monument    310
•  History of Chocalate                 311                                  
• History of the Fertile Crescent   312          
• History of  West Point                313
• Famous Stagg                             314
• History Indian Code Talkers      315
• History Gadsden Purchase          316
• History Virginia City                  317
• History Pax Mongolica              318
• Strathmore history                     319
• History Plano Jerky                   320
• Porterville Murder                    321
• Porterville Flood                      322
• History of  Porterville              323
• Mineral King History               324
• Cuban Missile Crisis               325
• California Bear Flag Revolt  326
• Alexander the Great               327
• A Fish Wheel                         328
• Alaska Highway History        329
• History Daytona Speedway    330
• Glen Canyon Dam History      331
• Naming California                  332
• Dr. McLoughlin (good man)   333
• The Battle Of LosAngles        334
• Courtwright Reservor             335
• BUCK the GREAT DOG      336
• Neanderthal people                337
• Hidden treasures of Mother earth 338
• Alexander Von Humboldt       339
• More Mother Earth Treasure  340
• Darwin Origin of Species        341
• First California Oranges          342
• History Santa Barbara            343
• The Sanger Museum & Flume 344
• History Lemon Cove              345
• The Sun's Affect On Our Climate 346
• The Age of Discovery              347
• Rare Earth Element                  348
• Aristotle                                   349
• Story Oceanography                 350
• Mining in the Sierras                351
• Source of Chocolate                 352
• History Germanic People         353
• History of Irrigation                 354
• History Salt                              355
• History of Wall Street              356
• History Atlantis                        357
• History Greenland                    358
• ALERT ALERT                       359
• Frozen Artic Forest                  360
• History Dawn Redwood          361
• History Hospital Rock             362