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The west gave us our best-loved national hero, the cowboy. Cowboy country is about this proud man on horseback and his equally colorful employer, the rancher, who have both played such a large part in putting food on America's table. The text carries the reader back 200 years to a string of ranchos along the California coastline, stocked with semi-wild longhorns and operated by the Spanish settlers. It also tells of the cattle drives to California after the gold rush of 1849 involving 300,000 head. Some of these trail routes were as long as 2,000 miles and took over six months to complete. The story continues into the San Joaquin Valley and gives the history of early ranches, including the Miller and Lux Ranch, Kern County Land Company, and the Tejon Ranch, which has continued to be one of California's leading ranches since 1859. Much of Cowboy country takes place on the author's homerange, the Kern River Valley, over the past 110 years.
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Manuscripts
The Albert R. Hibbs Papers, 1884-2009 (80 boxes) document the personal life and career of Hibbs as a manager and scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the relationships between JPL, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and the development of the solar system exploration programs. Hibbs' consulting work for television and radio programs, Biosphere 2, and Morgantown Area Rapid Transit System (MARTS) are also documented. Although the collection arrived at The Huntington in disarray, original order of the materials was maintained when possible and the arrangement reflects Hibbs' general organization by correspondent, subject, or format of materials. The collection is divided into ten series: Audio Visual Materials, Consulting Files, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Notebooks, Personal Files, Photographs and Negatives, Presentations and Speeches, Publications and Writings, Teaching Files, and Oversize. The bulk of collection materials date from 1931 to 1999 and consists of audio and video tapes, clippings, correspondence, memoranda, notes, photographs, publications, speeches, and writings. As the collection is arranged by both subject and format of the materials, researchers should be aware that materials are often dispersed through the series. For example, materials related to specific subjects are frequently represented in the JPL and Notebooks Series; similarly, Hibbs' friendship and collaboration with Roy L. Walford is documented in the Correspondence and Aging Research and Writings subseries of the Personal Series, in the Space Bioshpheres Ventures subseries of the Consulting series, as well as in the Audio Visual Materials Series. Correspondence is also dispersed throughout the series.
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