The Story of Inyo (Classic Reprint), by W. A. Chalfant

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Excerpt from The Story of InyoCalifornia has furnished probably more themes for books than has any other American State. The easy-going romantic years of Mexican rule, the padres, the Argonauts, the golden era, the wonders of this Empire of the West, have had generous attention from both masters and amateurs in prose and poetry, fact and fiction. The flood of writing hardly diminishes, for magazine literature and still more books add to it month by month. Yet few of the writers on California subjects look outside of the boundaries coined by a phrase-making politician, "from Siskiyou to San Diego, from the Sierras to the sea." Even such historians as Bancroft and Hittell deemed it hardly worth their while to inquire into the annals of the borderlands, though the wilds were conquered through many hardships and wars bloodier than some on which volumes have been written.Those who ventured into the unknown regions seldom thought it worth while to set down for the future any extended record of their trials and achievements. While they lived history, it all came to them as part of the day's work.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Story of Inyo (Classic Reprint), by W. A. Chalfant

• Amazon Sales Rank: #760441 in Books
• Published on: 2015-09-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .78" w x 5.98" l, 1.11 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 378 pages

The Story of Inyo (Classic Reprint), by W. A. Chalfant

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful. If you love the Owens Valley, this book is for you. By A Customer The Story of Inyo presents a comprehensive view of the history and geology of the Owens Valley, beginning with its first inhabitants, and extending through the conflict with the City of Los Angeles.What makes the book special is that it presents it from the perspective of one of the prominent citizens of the Valley during its formative years, newspaperman and author W.A. Chalfant. When you pick up this book, not only do you get some very insteresting facts about the Owens Valley, you also get to read them in a writing style that was prevalent at the time that the history was being made. It's like reading about history and stepping back into it at the same time.The Story of Inyo should be perhaps the first choice for anyone interested in the history or geology of the Owens Valley.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. W.A. Chalfant and The Story of Inyo By Burton Falk In 1887, nineteen year-old W.A. (Bill) Chalfant took over active editorship of the Inyo Register, published in Bishop, CA, and continued to serve in that capacity until a year before his death in 1943 During his long career with the Register, Bill Chalfant became a staunch advocate for Owens Valley residents, especially in regard to the acquisition of local water rights by Los Angeles interests during the early years of the 1900s. When firebrands began dynamiting the resulting aqueduct, however, Chalfant opposed their action and subsequently was threatened to be run out of town. Later he served on the Inyo Associates Committee, a group formed to repair relations with the City of Los Angeles, and, partially through his counsel and sense of justice, he lived to see town properties resold to local residents, thereby returning many acres of Owens Valley land to production. John B. Long, manager of the California Newspaper Publishers Association, said, "Angels Camp had its Mark Twain, the Valley of the Moon its Jack London, San Francisco its Bret Harte, and Owens Valley its Bill Chalfant." Which begs the question, "Who better than Bill Chalfant to write a history of Inyo County?" First published in 1922, The Story of Inyo contains a wealth of information on its namesake County, including, but not limited to: the geology of the area (now somewhat dated), a brief history of the county's first inhabitants (the Paiutes and Shoshones), notes on its earliest explorers (Jedediah Smith, Joe Walker, John C. Fremont), the ordeal of the emigrants who came through Death Valley in 1849, the first attempts to organize a new county (Inyo County was originally part of Tulare County), early mining claims (Coso and Argus in 1860; Slate Range in 1861), the arrival of the first cattle (1861), the Indian Wars (1861-1867, during which 60 whites and some 200 Indians died.), the development of the Cerro Gordo mines (beginning in 1865), the eventual establishment of Inyo County (1866), the Great Earthquake(1872), the opening of the Panamint mines (1873), the discovery of borax in Death Valley (1880), and, last but not least, the development of the Owens Valley as an agricultural area. Updating The Story of Inyo in 1933, Chalfant took aim at the Southern California interests which had acquired most of the water rights in the Owens River drainage, thus severely limiting the area of its agricultural promise. Starting with Chapter XXXIV, "The Betrayal of Owens Valley," and including six additional chapters with foreboding titles such as: "The Coils Tighten," "Unceasing Menace," and "City Lawlessness Emulated," the author provided a detailed--if somewhat mind-numbing--explanation of how the Owens Valley lost its birthright.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Part of my past By Donald L. Schultz, Jr. I worked in Bishop, CA for almost three years starting in 1954 right out of college. A few of my fellow workers for the California Division of Highways actually lived through the time of the construction of the aqueduct to transport Owens river water to Los Angeles and experienced first hand the animosity between the Inyo county residents and the city of L.A. Hence, my interest in the subject. The Chalfant Press was still publishing the Bishop, CA newspaper at that time.

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