All photos and text are from Old_Timers of Southeastern California by Lester Reed

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The Hunter Family of Inyo

William Lyle Hunter - Bev Hunter's father
William was one of the pioneers of Cerro Gordo
shortly after the end of the Civil War

Bev Hunter at his log cabin on Hunter Mountain

Bev Hunter when he was still hunting wild burros

The old William Lyle Hunter Home at Cerro Gordo

The Desert Indians Way of Life

Bev Hunter and his wife Ruth Hunter

Roy and Joy Hunter

Joy and Roy Hunter
Wild horse and burro catchers

Cattle camp at Lee Flats on Bev and Roy Hunter's cattle range.

Roy Hunter at home in wild horse country

Joy Hunter ready to gather wild horses, wild burros or cattle.

The Mark Lacey Family

Joe Baker, foreman for the Mark Lacey family

Mark Lacey getting a start on horseback

L/R: William Boyd, Hans (John) Meyer
vacationing in Jordan Hot Springs

Mark Lacey and Jack Fitzpatrick

Birthplace of Mark Lacey near Independence, CA

Anna Maria Lacey and John Williams Lacey - mother and father to Mark Lacey

George Brown

George Brown

Alonzo Brown family of Inyo County.
L/R: Annie Kimbler (half sister to George), Alonzo Brown (father), George Brown, Charlotte Brown (mother), Laura Brown (sister)

A male sheep with a double set of horns owned by George Brown

Alonzo Brown as an early day blacksmith of Olancha

Early day roundup in Monache Meadow.

First car of the George Brown family.

Horace (Bart) Bellows, early day goat owner for whom Alonzo Brown herded goats.

L/R: Web Walker, Ed Walker. Bother were uncles to George Brown

Alonzo Brown home at Olancha where George Brown was born and lived near to 80 years.
The place was sold in 1966 and the George Brown family moved to Lone Pine.

Frank Chrysler

Frank Chrysler - cowboy, stage driver,
pack train operator

Dee Gill

Harold Gill standing by the 20-Mule Team in Death Valley

Dee Gill at Templeton Meadow log cabin.

Dee Gill - One of Inyo County's outstanding ropers

Dee Gill and Julia Aiken Gill (wife of Dee Gill)