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On a hot Saturday afternoon in June 1883, Charles Franklin Montgomery, editor of the local Tocsin newspaper, walked into a saloon on Red Bluff’s Main Street, a Smith & Wesson pistol in hand
The next time you sit down for a turkey sandwich, drive the road to Manton from Dales Station, pass by the fairground in Red Bluff, or canoe down the Sacramento River, and take a moment to think about Joe Alva Martin.
Next you sit down for a turkey sandwich, drive the road to Manton from Dales Station, pass by the fairground in Red Bluff, or canoe down the Sacramento River, take a moment to think about Joe Alva Martin. Joe’s newspaper notoriety began when four plump turkeys were stolen one January night from Richfield turkey raiser, […]
In 1833, John Brown married Mary Ann Day, just seventeen. In the first two decades of their marriage, writes Wilbert Phay, “she bore him thirteen children. ... Of these, seven died in early childhood. Four of the children were taken by disease of some nature in one year. Two of her children, Oliver and Watson, were killed during the Harper’s Ferry episode.”