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Description:The Big Sur Trilogy is the story about one of the last pioneer families in America who lived freely and self-sufficiently in a remote area of the central California coast once called El Sur de la Grande, or the Big South, now known simply as the Big Sur. The Trilogy spans over 100 years and depicts the hard but rewarding life of three generations of the Zande Allan family. The Big Sur Coast extends 100 miles from Carmel to San Simeon and is bordered by the Santa Lucia Mountains and Pacific Ocean. This remote wilderness contains some of the most rugged terrain in the American continent. From the beginning of time the south coast was accessible only by foot, mule or horseback. Although inhabited by three nomadic American Indian tribes, the Spaniards refused to travel along the coast because of the high mountains, steep canyons and dangerous water crossings.In the 1870s a partial wagon road was built from Mal Paso Crossing to Bixby Creek Ranch. The next 74 miles of the Big Sur Coast was not accessible by auto until 1937 with the opening of Highway One, which took eighteen years to build, mostly by convict labor using dynamite and steam shovels.When completed, it became the only road in the United States that went directly from a horse trail to an auto road, thus bypassing the traditional, interim wagon road. The road changed forever the lives of the Big Sur homesteaders as the mainstream modern American culture motored into their once-private coast.Before the road, few ‘outlanders’ visited the south coast because travel was strenuous, the trail precarious and the homesteads were few and far between, but those who ventured there were greeted with coast hospitality, lively conversation and ranch grown food.The Big Sur pioneer families worked long hours and full days with little time for frills or fancy things, and they had no patience for what was not plain spoken. A trip to Monterey to buy supplies or to Salinas to sell cattle took three hard days by horseback along narrow trails at the edge of granite cliffs often falling straight to the sea some 2000 feet below. Twice a year the ranchers would gather for a coast barbecue with neighbors on the beach while waiting for the cargo schooner to arrive and winch ashore their load of hard stock supplies too bulky for pack mule or horse.The third novel of the Big Sur Trilogy begins in 1909 on the 21st birthday of the third Zande Allen, who grew up under his Grampa’s sharp eyes and stern ways. Zan revered his grandfather as the wisest of men and his Grampa fancied Zan as the finest of fruit from his family tree.Enroute to the annual family barbeque and roundup, Zan stopped to help the crew surveying for the new road and earned his first three dollars. As the traditional 21st birthday gift to a male Allan, Zande deeded his grandson land and stock, providing Zan could fence it in thirty days.Feeling flush, Zan offered to buy his sister, Maria, a brass bed, but was shocked when he learned the price. To keep his promise, he earned money working for the road crew while also building fence. But when Old Zande discovers his split loyalties, they clash and Zan gives him back the ranch and cattle, then begins work full time on the road. To thank Zan for her new bed, Maria invites him to dinner but enroute Zan hears a shot and discovers his flirty young cousin Tillie had killed her beau because she carried his child and he refused to marry her. To save her reputation, Zan confesses to a crime he did not commit and goes to prison. After seven years Zan returns and realizes his love for Lara, a child adopted by his parents and ten years younger, but thinking that no respectable woman would want a convict for a husband, he holds back his feelings for her.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Big Sur Trilogy: Part 3 - The Road. To get started finding Big Sur Trilogy: Part 3 - The Road, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The Big Sur Trilogy is the story about one of the last pioneer families in America who lived freely and self-sufficiently in a remote area of the central California coast once called El Sur de la Grande, or the Big South, now known simply as the Big Sur. The Trilogy spans over 100 years and depicts the hard but rewarding life of three generations of the Zande Allan family. The Big Sur Coast extends 100 miles from Carmel to San Simeon and is bordered by the Santa Lucia Mountains and Pacific Ocean. This remote wilderness contains some of the most rugged terrain in the American continent. From the beginning of time the south coast was accessible only by foot, mule or horseback. Although inhabited by three nomadic American Indian tribes, the Spaniards refused to travel along the coast because of the high mountains, steep canyons and dangerous water crossings.In the 1870s a partial wagon road was built from Mal Paso Crossing to Bixby Creek Ranch. The next 74 miles of the Big Sur Coast was not accessible by auto until 1937 with the opening of Highway One, which took eighteen years to build, mostly by convict labor using dynamite and steam shovels.When completed, it became the only road in the United States that went directly from a horse trail to an auto road, thus bypassing the traditional, interim wagon road. The road changed forever the lives of the Big Sur homesteaders as the mainstream modern American culture motored into their once-private coast.Before the road, few ‘outlanders’ visited the south coast because travel was strenuous, the trail precarious and the homesteads were few and far between, but those who ventured there were greeted with coast hospitality, lively conversation and ranch grown food.The Big Sur pioneer families worked long hours and full days with little time for frills or fancy things, and they had no patience for what was not plain spoken. A trip to Monterey to buy supplies or to Salinas to sell cattle took three hard days by horseback along narrow trails at the edge of granite cliffs often falling straight to the sea some 2000 feet below. Twice a year the ranchers would gather for a coast barbecue with neighbors on the beach while waiting for the cargo schooner to arrive and winch ashore their load of hard stock supplies too bulky for pack mule or horse.The third novel of the Big Sur Trilogy begins in 1909 on the 21st birthday of the third Zande Allen, who grew up under his Grampa’s sharp eyes and stern ways. Zan revered his grandfather as the wisest of men and his Grampa fancied Zan as the finest of fruit from his family tree.Enroute to the annual family barbeque and roundup, Zan stopped to help the crew surveying for the new road and earned his first three dollars. As the traditional 21st birthday gift to a male Allan, Zande deeded his grandson land and stock, providing Zan could fence it in thirty days.Feeling flush, Zan offered to buy his sister, Maria, a brass bed, but was shocked when he learned the price. To keep his promise, he earned money working for the road crew while also building fence. But when Old Zande discovers his split loyalties, they clash and Zan gives him back the ranch and cattle, then begins work full time on the road. To thank Zan for her new bed, Maria invites him to dinner but enroute Zan hears a shot and discovers his flirty young cousin Tillie had killed her beau because she carried his child and he refused to marry her. To save her reputation, Zan confesses to a crime he did not commit and goes to prison. After seven years Zan returns and realizes his love for Lara, a child adopted by his parents and ten years younger, but thinking that no respectable woman would want a convict for a husband, he holds back his feelings for her.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Big Sur Trilogy: Part 3 - The Road. To get started finding Big Sur Trilogy: Part 3 - The Road, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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