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Lone Pine's history is as dramatic and violent as the magnificent landscape in which the town is located. Long before the first white settlers arrived during the Gold Rush, small groups of Paiute-Shoshone Indians lived in the area. With the discovery of gold and silver, miners and ranchers supplying food for the mines came into violent conflict with the native inhabitants between 1860 and 1865. In the 1870s, the Cerro Gordo mines (the largest silver strike in the state) buoyed the growth of Los Angeles. At the turn of the century, the City of Los Angeles clandestinely bought up land and water rights and initiated a period of conflict with the Owens Valley. In the 1920s, Hollywood discovered the Sierra Nevada Mountains and high deserts of the area. Over 400 films and countless commercials have been filmed in Lone Pine, featuring such stars as John Wayne, Gene Autry, Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, Rita Hayworth, Barbara Stanwyck, and Brad Pitt.
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Irish One
reviewed Lone Pine, California (Images of America Series) on November 22, 2007
Lone Pine, California (Images of America Series)
I love that this book series exists to collect photographs of small towns across America. I would like to give this one a higher star rating, but I can't quite.
I didn't grow up anywhere near Lone Pine, but I've spent the last ten years visiting the area and reading about the local history. There's an awful lot left out. It makes me question the other books about places about which I know less.
Given that these books aren't really meant to be comprehensive histories, you'd think that great care would go into captioning the photographs. Many of the images in this particular collection don't have even a guess about what year they were taken in, and the organization seems a little random in spite of the chapter headings.
I was first drawn to the area because of its rich geologic history, and my favorite pictures are of damage after the 1872 earthquake there and of the main street in less traveled days.
I found it amusing that the author, in captioning a photo of people camping in the back country in the mountains above Lone Pine, said that the kids enjoyed "shacking up." Ha! I don't think he understands the sexual connotations there!
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