Author Event: Saturday, May 28, 2022 from 11am to 2pm

Walla Walla's Blue Mountain Railroad in 1879

Please join us on Saturday, May 28, 2022 from 11am to 2pm when Clark Colahan will be signing copies of Walla Walla's Blue Mountain Railroad in 1879, and On the Banks of San Simeon Creek: San Simeon Pioneers.

Clark Colahan relives his recent adventure of stumbling upon the lost map of the Blue Mountain Railroad.

The author is a retired Whitman College professor and the author of several books on literature, especially on Don Quixote and the Spanish Renaissance.  

 

On the Banks of San Simeon Creek: San Simeon Pioneers

A new book presents the first edition of diaries and letters by the earliest pioneers to settle on San Simeon Creek.   In the 1850’s and 60’s, decades before Hearst’s Castle was a gleam in the eye of William Randolph, phenomenally hard-working and family-focused  American pioneers were living in cabins along the creek at the foot of what would later be called the Enchanted Hill - farming, ranching, establishing schools, roads, medical services, and a legal system.  One clan was the Clarks, Mathers and Pinkhams, who have left a detailed and highly personal record of their astonishingly varied activities, hardships, and emotions in a Hispanic region that still struck them as thoroughly foreign.