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This book's purpose is to preserve, particularly, the record of Inyo county earlier than 1870, when a printed record began. Gathering data for some such purpose began more than twenty years ago, while many of the pioneers still lived. It was the author's good fortune to know personally every early-day Inyoite then in the county. Each of them gladly gave his help. Personal interviews when possible, and correspondence with those who had moved to other parts of the country, elicited their recollections. All narratives were checked and rechecked with each other and with other sources of information. Public records were searched, as were also the files of pioneer newspapers in different libraries.
One of the most valuable sources of information was an extensive manuscript collection in the private library of Henry G. Hanks, in San Francisco. Mr. Hanks was an assayer in San Carlos and Chrysopolis mining camps, Owens Valley, in 1863. In later years he became State Mineralogist of California. He was a man of education, and when age caused his retirement from active labors his library received his whole attention. His interest in Owens Valley continuing, he kept and arranged many letters, diaries and other writings relating to this county's history. When the collection was examined for the purpose of this compilation, in 1902 or 1903, it had become an almost complete though disconnected history of the more strenuous pioneer years in Inyo.
Everyone who took any prominent part in the Indian war has passed on. The Hanks library was burned in the fire of 1906. As those sources of information are thus forever lost, there is some justification in believing that a service was done in getting what they had to impart; and also, that these chronicles, having that advantage, give the only fairly complete record of the county's beginnings that can be compiled.
Much of this material has been published in serial form in the Inyo Register. The idea of putting it into book form had been virtually abandoned when in the spring of 1921 the Federation of Women's Clubs of Inyo County, desirous of having the recr/d preserved and made available, gave the publication their co-operation; and the Board of Supervisors later extended support that made the book a certainty.
Material has been procured from more sources than can be fully noted here. A general list of those sources follows
Personal accounts by T. F. A. Connelly, Alney L. McGee, Barton McGee, S. G. Gregg, J. S. Broder, A. Van Fleet, Milo Page, Thomas W. Hill, John L. Bodle, Thomas E. Jones, Henry G. Hanks, T. H. Goodman, and others.
Correspondence with L. A. Spitzer, J. A. Hubinger, F. W. Fickert, John C. Willett, Gen. J. H. Soper, Dr. S. G. George, William B. Daugherty, George Otis Smith (Director U. S. Geological Survey), the Smithsonian Institution, Willard D. Johnson, Dr. A. L. Kroeber (Curator Department of Ethnology, University of California).
Many manuscripts in the collection of Henry G. Hanks.
Articles by P. A. Chalfant, Mrs. J. W. Brier, C. L. Canfield, J. B. Colton, E. C. Atkinson, W. L. (Dad) Moore, and others.
Files of the San Francisco Alta California, San Francisco Bulletin, San Francisco Call, Sacramento Union, Los Angeles News, Los Angeles Star, in some instances as early as 1852; also of the Inyo Independent, Inyo Register, Bakersfield Echo, and other papers of subsequent years containing narratives of pioneers.
Addresses by Henry G. Hanks in San Francisco in 1864 and by James E. Parker in Lone Pine July 4, 1876.
Official reports of Warren Wasson and several other Indian agents; field notes of A. W. Von Schmidt's survey of Owens Valley; journals of the California Legislature; records of the Independence land office and of the Inyo county government; and sundry other official documents.
"Death Valley in '49," by W. L. Manley; "Death Valley," by J. R. Spear; "California Men in the War of the Rebellion," by R. H. Orton.
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The Story of Inyo eBook Willie Arthur Chalfant Reviews
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.
Accurate account Inyo County's turbid history
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.
What a great book about the history of early Inyo County! While I am quite familiar with the physical geography, I wasn't so aware of the history. Now I know why all those creeks, mountains, and other locations are named as they are. This will greatly enhance my next trip to the region ...
This account of the history of Inyo was written in 1922 and has a wealth of information on the geology, mines, miners, Native Americans, as well as the wheeling dealing of a few scoundrels in the Owens Valley and area East of the Sierra Nevada. Great addition for any collector of California history. Reprinted in 2010. Good quality. The author, Mr. Chalfant was a newspaper man whose chapters are very descriptive.
My grandson-in-law grew up in the area about which the book was written. He was excited to receive it as a birthday gift, and continues to tell us how much he enjoys reading it. It may not be as interesting to someone who doesn't enjoy historical events and has no knowledge of the areas spoken of in the book.
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