San Antonio Valley

by Susan Raycraft, Ann Keenan Beckett

Overview

The San Antonio River, flowing for millennia from the highest peak in the Santa Lucia Mountain Range, carved out a valley on its way to join the Salinas River. These oak savannahs grow lush with native grasses and in spring ignite with one of the brightest wildflower displays in the state. Once the domain of the Salinan people, and later including the ranch lands of William Randolph Hearst, the valley now hosts the well-preserved Mission San Antonio de Padua, founded in 1771; farms and vineyards; mines and oil wells; historic Fort Hunter Ligget; and the communities of Jolon, Lockwood, Pleyto, and Bryson- Hesperia. Still ringed by blue, sometimes snow-capped mountains, this lovely valley remains a sanctuary for deer, mountain lion, tule elk, and the occasional black bear.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738546681
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	09/13/2006
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Coauthors Susan Raycraft and Ann Keenan Beckett are teachers and historians active on the board of the San Antonio Valley Historical Association. Working from opposite ends of the valley, they sought out unpublished family photographic collections and searched the archives of the Mission San Antonio de Padua and other public collections in the county to create this pictorial chronicle of a hardy people living in a unique valley, little changed from a century ago.