Bertha, Buddy, Betty, Berdell, Bud & Ina c. 1930 On November 19, 1942, the Central Eureka Mining Company entered into a leasing agreement with T.E. Wood and his partners, R.M. Clark, Gordon Estes and J.A. Millar on eighteen unpatented claims in Copper Basin, known as the Acacia and Hawkeye placer and lode claims. Central Eureka was based in San Francisco and was one of the most successful gold-mining companies in California’s Mother Lode region. Because of Limitation Order

According to Grammie's stories, Tom Miller got scared because she was too serious and left Nevada for Los Angeles in about 1924/1925. Family stories have related he went to work on the 1925 Ben-Hur training horses for the movie. Excerpt from the book Hollywood Hoofbeats, Trails Blazed Across the Silver Screen by Petrine Day Mitchum talks about the early filming and the chariot race. Goldwyn Pictures secured the motion picture rights in 1923. The resultant film cost $4 mil

Last September Anna and I took off on a week long scavenger hunt in Colorado looking for Wood and Priest family trails. We went to Rico (hi Uncle Will); Crawford (visited TE 1, Laurena, Lottie & Jim Arnold) and got a tour of the Wood Ranch from a lovely lady, Mary Dufon. Then over the mountains to Canyon City where the Colorado State Penitentiary is to see where Henry Priest spent his time. We continued to Colorado Springs looking for traces of the Priest homesteads. Whil

Intake photo for Henry Priest Who would have guessed that finding our great great grandfather, Henry David Priest, in the 1900 census would lead to a dark family secret that none of us were aware of. Henry Priest is listed in the 1900 Federal census residing at the Colorado Penitentiary in Canyon City, Colorado. While this discovery was not entirely unexpected given aspects of our family history, the reason for his incarceration was. We were expecting larceny, cattle rustli

Feel free to share any of your old family recipes. Here's one from Grammie's old cookbook that Anna has now.