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IRON EYES CODY* MONTE HALE CHUCK CONNORS
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And your memories live on forever.
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SOMETHING ABOUT RIVENDALE

Young Jedediah Cody, when traveling with John The order of things at RIVENDALE on "The Old
C Fremont's expedition to establish Fort Tejon in Road'': Indians, expeditioners, Jedediah, Shumalua,
1844, wrote in his journal " . We made camp the hard riding working cowboys spinning their yarns
tonight in a little ualley where the mist houers in an and singing songs of the open range and the OLD
ethereal manner aboue the mountains. This place WEST, miners, railroaders, oilmen, mouie cowboys ...
was to be known as RIVENDALE Jedediah stayed ALL came for food and shelter and were welcomed
In this ua/ley to explore the Indian storage caves first by Jedediah and Shumalua and later by their
uislble below the canyon. When an Indian family descendants ... And the smell of the sweet hay ;--- · ·
passed through on their way to a nearby mineral stacked in the upper ualley let it be known that ·.,
spring for the annual bathing. he met and fell in loue RIVEN DALE was a place for fair treatment of animals ,
with a Shoshoni maiden called "Shumalua." From FINALLY: A good and kind man of medicine
his journal: " ... In this ualley below the mountains became the owner-proprietor of the Rivendale E
of mist we haue established our home." of the NEW WES T... and It was recognized as ·..:,...,;::: ,
Trauelers came uia Conestoga wagons. Butterfield center for the training of horses, but kept the tradl· .
stage and horseback on the way to the metropolis of tion of hospitality to ALL who would seek t,,:
Chaquayabit (Kastalc), the crossroads of trade companionship and entertainment in comfortable .
where the Alliklllk Indians were hosts to the Yo-kuts, surroundings. .
Tejons, Shoshoni, Serrano, Pacoinga, Cahuenga. RIVENDALE ... where the days and nights are as
I-pus and Chumash. Indians traueled all the way fresh and fair as could be dreamed . . . "On ''The Old
from sweet and juicy acorns found in the oak grooues Road" at the Calgroue Exit ... I-5. • .!J
of Pico Canyon.