PHANTOM CANYON RANCH HISTORY

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The chapters below are drafts. Many thanks for the suggestions, questions and edits received from readers. Copy changes as a result will be forthcoming.

- Carl

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PHANTOM CANYON RANCH HISTORY

Painting by Jim Biggers (detail)

The chapters below are drafts. Many thanks for the suggestions, questions and edits received from readers. Copy changes as a result will be forthcoming.

- Carl

Print by Mark Woolbright (detail)

Introduction

We Buy The Tibbits Place

My Father

The 1904 Flood

This Old House

Old Homesteads

Land Planning

Senate Bill 35

The Williams Place - Rabbit Creek

Rabbit Creek Flood Irrigation

Kent Stevens

The Eaton Grazing Permit

The Union Pacific

Roy Brown and The DOW

To The Eaton Permit and Back

Rabbit Creek Center Pivot

Shortcut Sodbusting

Livermore Grass

Grazing Notes

Some Ranch Economics

Corrals and a Bridge

Pat Ferree

Clarence Koch

"Fire, Ready, Aim"

The Barlows

Jimmy Andrews

More Jimmy Andrews

Yet More Jimmy Andrews

The Ferree Cows

The Ferree Meadows

Reconnaissance By Raft

Farming With Father

The Cherry Factory

Jim Riedhead Meets Hippie Potters

Sandy Oskamp

Ron Mahan

Aim! (The Plan)

Raising Capital 101

North Fork Land & Cattle Co.

Halligan Reservoir Lease

Trout Fishing

Livermore Geology

Livermore Streams

Livermore Water Rights

NPIC Chronicle I - Francis Lovett Carter-Cotton (1843-1919)

NPIC Chronicle II - The North Fork Ditch

NPIC Chronicle III - Halligan Reservoir Beginnings

NPIC Chronicle IV - Halligan Foundation

NPIC Chronicle V - Halligan Dam is Built

NPIC Chronicle VI - Coming of Age

We Take Over the Koch Place

Making Ends Meet

Cattle and Corn

Baling Corn Stalks

Aspen Haylage

Micro Manipulation

Clarence Tips His Hand

Calloway Land & Cattle Co (CL&CC)

Three Musketeers

Gary 'Slim' Spurling (1938 - 2007)

"But He’s Only a Ranch Manager"

The Roberts Family - Larger than Life

Barn Dances

Ed Eise nman (1924-1987)

The Roberts Brothers Chronicles - Consequences

The Roberts Brothers Chronicles II - Sugarcoat

Roberts Intermission

The Roberts Brothers Chronicles III - What Were They Thinking?

The Roberts Brothers Chronicles IV - Trial

The Roberts Brothers Chronicles - V Trial (continued)

The Roberts Brothers Chronicles - VI The Squeeze

The Roberts Brothers Chronicles - VII New Trial Motion

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