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Posts published by “Malcolm Macdonald”

Rugged Days Of Yore

“Life is cheap up here on the Canadian,” is a line from Lonesome Dove that has stuck with me. When something goes even moderately wrong at the ranch I sometimes say, “Life sure is rough…

Coast Hospital: Bad Investment

At the April 26th Mendocino Coast District Hospital (MCDH) Board of Directors meeting, the District's legal counsel was directed to draft a resolution that would remove Dr. Lucas Campos from his seat on the board.…

H.H. Wonacott & His Grandniece

Many readers have heard of H.H. (Harold Howard) Wonacott, the photographer who maintained studios in both Willits and Fort Bragg in the 1910s and on into the 1920s. In 1922 he sold the Willits studio…

Albion River Bridge History

There's quite a bit of consternation brewing on the Mendocino Coast about a Caltrans project to possibly replace the highway bridge over the Albion River near its mouth. The Caltrans view is that the project…

Doc Standley’s First Arrest, 1866 (Part 4)

Once they were on the trail a ways south from Usal, Standley, however, did unlock Jerry Bailey's right hand and fastened the left cuff to the pommel, making it more comfortable for Bailey to ride.…

Doc Standley’s First Arrest, 1866 (Part 2)

A party of men, including Bailey rode to Leggett Valley where they found Johnson Heacock's severed head still stuck to the long pole thrust into the ground on the dead man's property. They took it…

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