Local rancher, Fat Jones, supplied much of the rodeo stock. Leonard Cesena (whose family still hails from these parts) was first in steer riding and Hank Wertz Jr. A couple of local cowpokes took top money.
The festivities started with a parade through town, followed by a huge barbecue. Of the bullets found in the mayor’s heart, the Los Angeles Coroner wrote in his cause-of-death report: “…good grouping.”īACK WHEN WE WERE WESTERN - More than 8,000 folks who enjoyed things cowboy showed up for the third annual Newhall Rodeo. Roosevelt (he hated being called, “Teddy”) was Rosy Melrose, the legendary gunfighter, hunter, practical joker, and lead participant in the Crown Valley Feud where he shot dead the mayor of Acton in a main street gunfight. President Theodore Roosevelt stopped off to visit some friends and do a little hunting. MAY WE HAVE A HEARTY, ‘BULLY!!!’ - We had a pretty big celebrity staying at the Acton Hotel on May 4, 1903. While it has been celebrated as the first gold discovery in Southern California, gold mining had been going on in the SCV as far back as the 1790s. VALLEY OF GOLD - On May 3, 1842, the San Francisquito Mining District was established, commemorating the discovery of gold by Don Francisco Lopez, possibly in Placerita Canyon. Bard bought the rancho on April 29, 1865. In a complicated land deal, frontman Thomas R. He was shot in the back of the head in a Newhall saloon in the early 20th century.īLAME THE COWS? - The cattle market collapsed and the mayor of Los Angeles and owner of the Rancho San Francisco (today, much of the Santa Clarita Valley) Ignacio del Valle, was forced to sell his home. One of the brothers, McCoy, later became a local lawman. The artifacts apparently are still in boxes somewhere in the basement of the Peabody Museum at Harvard. It was later called Bowers Cave after the Ventura doctor to whom the boys sold their treasure - for a pittance of its actual value. Brothers Everette and McCoy Pyle, on May 2, 1884, discovered the caches near today’s Chiquita Landfill. Much of what we know about the Tataviam Indians who populated this valley prior to the 20th century came from the discovery of a cave by two Castaic boys.
history was discovered near present-day Highway 126. INDIAN TREASURE - Back on May 2, 1884, one of the most significant Amerindian archeological finds in U.S. We can do the giggles, gossip, and whispers after we giddy-up through the Santa Clarita vortex into simpler but oft no-less-violent climes… This is an epic Time Ranger trek this fine morn. I’ll tell you saddlepals right up front. SCV Signal News Podcast with Aron Bender.The two-part miniseries chronicles the life of Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth President of the United States and premiered on May 30, 2022, on History. Theodore Roosevelt is a 2022 American television documentary miniseries directed by Malcolm Venville.
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