2011 Old Spanish Trail Association Conference Kellogg-West Conference Center Cal Poly Pomona SESSIONS & PRESENTERS (alphabetically by session title)

SESSION TITLE(S) SESSION SUMMARY PHOTOS PRESENTER MICRO-AUTOBIOGRAPHY

"170th Anniversary of the In 1841, a group, often referred to as the Workman and Rowland Paul Spitzzeri - Paul R. Spitzzeri is Collections Manager at the Workman and Rowland-Workman Party" Party or Rowland and Workman Expedition, of perhaps sixty-five Collections Temple Family Homestead Museum in City of Industry, or so persons arrived in the Los Angeles area by the Old Spanish Manager, Workman- California, where he has worked since 1988. Recipient of his Trail. This assemblage of Americans, Europeans and New Temple Family B.A. and M.A. degrees in history from California State University, Mexicans heralded a movement of overland migration and Homestead Museum Fullerton, Paul has written on overland migration, railroads, and settlement that threatened the relative isolation and vulnerability of criminal justice for Journal of the West, California History, Mexican . This talk focuses on that settlement within Southern California Quarterly and several anthologies. His book, the context of the titanic changes that convulsed California in the The Workman and Temple Families of Southern California, 1830-1930 , years after their arrival. was a 2009 winner of an Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History.

"Agua Mansa Cemetery" The communities of Agua Mansa and La Placita along the banks of Michele Nielsen - Michele Nielsen is the curator of history and archives at the San the Santa Ana River were originally settled by people who had come Curator of Bernardino County Museum in Redlands, CA. Here area of from Abiquiu, New Mexico on what is now called the Old Spanish History/Archives, special interest is the material culture of post-Gold Rush Trail. Many of those settlers, their descendants, and other residents San Bernardino California. Ms. Nielsen is currently working on the major of the local area are buried at Agua Mansa Cemetery. The cemetery County Museum renovation of the museum's history exhibits at the main facility, itself is a part of their life stories, and they in turn, are an important and the new Victor Valley Museum site. part of our collective regional history.

"Alternate Travel Plans: The Southern Emigrant Trail, from Yuma Crossing to Los Angeles, Phil Brigandi - Phil Brigandi has been researching and writing local history since The Southern Trail in played an important role in the history of Southern California for Historian & former 1975, with a special interest in Orange, Riverside, and San Diego California" more than a century. Indians, Spanish explorers, Mexican and County Archvist, counties. He is the author of more than twenty books, including American soldiers, '49ers, stage coach drivers, cattlemen, and Orange County, histories of Orange, Temecula, and Borrego Springs. He is active homesteaders all followed its trace across the desert. This session California with the Orange County Historical Society, the Los Angeles will provide a brief overview of the long history of the trail. Corral of The Westerners, and the E Clampus Vitus.

Page 1 of 18 SESSION TITLE(S) SESSION SUMMARY PHOTOS PRESENTER MICRO-AUTOBIOGRAPHY "An 1834 Bill of Sale: As well-known as the Rowland and Workman Expedition of 1841 is Paul Spitzzeri - Paul R. Spitzzeri is Collections Manager at the Workman and Prelude to the Rowland- for its impacts on Mexican Alta California, the extent to which its Collections Temple Family Homestead Museum in City of Industry, Workman Expedition of reputed leaders, William Workman and John Rowland, knew Manager, Workman- California, where he has worked since 1988. Recipient of his 1841" beforehand of California was not. In recent years, however, an Temple Family B.A. and M.A. degrees in history from California State University, 1834 document has come to light that seems to give some Homestead Museum Fullerton, Paul has written on overland migration, railroads, and indication, as this talk will explore. criminal justice for Journal of the West, California History, Southern California Quarterly and several anthologies. His book, The Workman and Temple Families of Southern California, 1830-1930 , was a 2009 winner of an Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History.

"ARRA Funded „Historic The presentation will discuss the current status of the BLM Jim Shearer – Jim Shearer is the BLM Archaeologist and Cultural Lead for the Trails Inventory Program‟ " National Trails ARRA project, the cultural resources inventory Archaeologist, BLM, Barstow Field Office. He has been involved with the Old components and the scenic and visual assessment components, and Barstow Field Spanish Trail for more than 5 years. Jim received his Masters how these differing components offer new strategies and Office, Bureau of degree from Utah State University. opportunities to define and evaluate both historic setting for Land Management specific cultural resources on the Old Spanish National Historic Trail within the context of the National Register of Historic Places and high potential route segments and landscapes for visitor use and experience within the context of the National Trails Act.

"ARRA Funded „Historic Jon Horn - Jon Horn is a co-owner and a Principal Investigator of Alpine Trails Inventory Program‟ " Archaeologist, Archaeological Consultants, Inc. in Montrose, Colorado. He has Alpine over 35 years of experience conducting historical and Archaeological archaeological investigations throughout the west. In addition to Consultants, Inc. the Old Spanish Trail, Mr. Horn has conducted projects along the Barlow Road in Oregon, the Oregon and California Trails in " " Wyoming, Utah, and California, and the Santa Fe Trail in Kansas.

"ARRA Funded „Historic Rolla Queen - Rolla Queen is the Heritage Resources Program Manager and Trails Inventory Program‟ " District District Archaeologist for the California Desert District of the Archaeologist, Bureau of Land Management in Moreno Valley, CA. He holds a California Desert B.A from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a District Office, M.A. from the University of Nevada Reno. He specializes in Bureau of Land cultural resources management, historic preservation, and the Management historical archaeology and history of expansion and settlement of " " the American West. He serves as the BLM California state lead for the National Historic Trails ARRA contract.

Page 2 of 18 SESSION TITLE(S) SESSION SUMMARY PHOTOS PRESENTER MICRO-AUTOBIOGRAPHY "ARRA Funded „Historic Stacey Jordan- Based in San Diego, Dr. Stacey Jordan-Connor is the Cultural Trails Inventory Program‟ " Conner - Resources Project Manager and California State Manager for the Senior Bureau of Land Management‟s ARRA-funded Inventory of Archaeologist, National Historic Trail Features project. Dr. Jordan has been AECOM professionally involved in the fields of archaeology and history for over a decade. Her specialty in historical archaeology combines the use of material culture and the archival record in " " anthropologically driven analyses of cultural resources. She recently organized the session “Paths of inquiry: perspectives on the study and management of trails in the western ” for the Society of American Archaeology 2011 Annual Meeting.

"The Brothers Wolfskill" William and John Wolfskill came to California on the Old Spanish Paul Spitzzeri - Paul R. Spitzzeri is Collections Manager at the Workman and Trail in the 1830s. While the former became a major figure in Los Collections Temple Family Homestead Museum in City of Industry, Angeles, the latter established himself in Solano County and both Manager, Workman- California, where he has worked since 1988. Recipient of his were known for their cultivation of orchards, including grapes, Temple Family B.A. and M.A. degrees in history from California State University, oranges and other fruits. Few families had as pronounced an Homestead Museum Fullerton, Paul has written on overland migration, railroads, and involvement in widespread areas of the state as the Wolfksill criminal justice for Journal of the West, California History, brothers and this talk will discuss their lives in the transformation Southern California Quarterly and several anthologies. His book, and turmoil of 19th century California. The Workman and Temple Families of Southern California, 1830-1930 , was a 2009 winner of an Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History.

"Bruce Harley & Agua The late Bruce Harley, former archivist for the Diocese of San Peter Bradley - Peter Bradley is currently the Archivist for the Catholic Diocese Mansa" Bernardino, significantly contributed to renewed interest and Archivist, Catholic of San Bernardino, CA. He has worked for the Diocese since awareness of San Salvador de Jurupa, the first non-idigenous Diocese of San 1979. Mr. Bradley is a graduate of the Western Archives community established in Southern California's "Inland Empire", Bernardino Insitute.Peter Bradley is currently the Archivist for the Catholic including La Politana and the communities of Agua Mansa and La Diocese of San Bernardino, CA. He has worked for the Diocese Placita de los Trujillos founded in 1844 by emigrants from New since 1979. Mr. Bradley is a graduate of the Western Archives Mexico. Insitute.

"The Californio Vaquero During the period of the Old Spanish Trail, Californio Vaquero Bruce Haener - Bruce Haener is a bit and spur maker in the classic Californio and His Equipment" horsemanship achieved its pinnacle. These horsemen not only Bit & Spur Maker in Vaquero style. He is part of the continuum that keeps the trained their horses to obey every command, they did it with the the Californio Style Vaquero tradition alive. He grew up in Los Angeles and now lives lightest touch of the reins. They were skilled craftsmen who made on the central California coast, which was once the epicenter of much of their own gear. On display will be some of the beautifully the Californio vaquero culture. Bruce‟s bits and spurs are highly crafted romal reins, mecates, spurs, saddles and hackamores they valued and sought after by today‟s Californio horsemen. He is use. The panel will discuss the nature of this unique horsemanship. also one of the top collectors with a treasure trove of vintage spade bits, spurs and branding irons that go back to California Rancho days.

Page 3 of 18 SESSION TITLE(S) SESSION SUMMARY PHOTOS PRESENTER MICRO-AUTOBIOGRAPHY "The Californio Vaquero Chris Flanagan - Chris is a 5th generation Californian. He was born into a family and His Equipment" Mule Packer in of horsemen and raised in Fresno and Clovis, California. His Yosemite National grandparents taught him the skills at an early age and by nine, he Park & Vaquero was taking riding lessons. After graduation from Clovis High Horseman School in 1979, he worked in Yosemite National Park at the Curry Stables, where he learned to pack and ride mules. Over the years, he has worked for several other pack outfits, as well as a " " couple of cattle outfits in California and Nevada. He now works full time for the Park Service and resides with his wife and three children in Yosemite National Park.

"The Californio Vaquero Griff Durham - Historian Griff Durham of Reno, Nevada has been interested in and His Equipment" Historian of cowboy horse gear for over 50 years. For the last 25 years he has California Saddles, been doing serious research in the field, with an emphasis on Tack & Gear West Coast saddlery and the influence of California patterns on the development of the stock saddle during the last third of the " " 19th century.

"The Californio Vaquero Paul Singer - This filmmaking duo spent their working careers in New York and His Equipment" Documentary City in advertising and their free time riding horses. They moved Filmmaker to Santa Barbara and noticed a revival of Californio (w/Susan Jensen), horsemanship. This inspired their first documentary on the S&J Productions subject titled “Vaquero ” which aired on NBC in California. The filmmakers followed this Vaquero Trail and created their highly acclaimed “Vaquero Series ” a Seven-DVD-Set about the Vaquero " " legacy.

"The Californio Vaquero Susan Jensen - This filmmaking duo spent their working careers in New York and His Equipment" Documentary City in advertising and their free time riding horses. They moved Filmmaker (w/Paul to Santa Barbara and noticed a revival of Californio Singer), S&J horsemanship. This inspired their first documentary on the Productions subject titled “Vaquero ” which aired on NBC in California. The filmmakers followed this Vaquero Trail and created their highly acclaimed “Vaquero Series ” a Seven-DVD-Set about the Vaquero " " legacy.

Page 4 of 18 SESSION TITLE(S) SESSION SUMMARY PHOTOS PRESENTER MICRO-AUTOBIOGRAPHY "Colorado & California: The When Donie Nelson began researching her mother‟s Hispanic Donie Nelson - Donie Nelson is a founding member of the Southern California Moyas and the Descendants heritage, she had no idea that the Old Spanish Trail played such a OSTA member & Chapter of the Genealogical Society of Hispanic America and of " big part in their history. Donie‟s 4th great grandfather, “mountain Editor, 'Nuestra served six terms as the Chapter‟s President. She‟s also served as man” Ewing Young, sought his fortune along most of the trails of Raices' journal of Secretary and VP on the national GSHA. She was managing the Southwest, including the Old Spanish Trail. Young‟s New the Genealogical editor of GSHA‟s quarterly journal Nuestras Raices for eight Mexico-born son and heir, Joaquin, came to California in search of Society of Hispanic years, returning in 2010 as editor-in-chief. She also served on the his birthright and found love, marrying Maria Josefa Moya at Agua America board of the California State Genealogical Alliance and currently Mansa, California (predecessor to Colton, California) in 1855. This serves on the board of the Southern California Genealogical marriage would produce 17 children, whose descendants reside Society. After 17 years as an executive with production along the Pacific Coast from Oregon to the Mexican border. companies based at MGM, 20th Century Fox, and Paramount, Young property, in what is now Colton in San Bernardino County, Donie continues in the film and television industry as a career is still owned by family members. consultant for writers.

"The Correct Routes of the John Hockaday will trace the route of the Old Spanish Trail through John Hockaday - John Hockaday is an accomplished photographer and historical OST from Cajon Pass to Los Cajon Pass and discuss alternate routes used to San Bernardino and OSTA member, researcher focusing primarily on the Cajon Pass. John has two Angeles" Los Angeles; and John Robinson will discuss the route that other Cajon Pass successful books, "The Man Who Built Camp Cajon " and "From early travelers, such as Jedediah Smith and Antonio Armijo, Historian and Indian Footpath to Modern Highway ", both part of his Trails and followed from San Bernardino to Mission San Gabriel and Los Publisher Tales of the Cajon Pass series. John has written for such Angeles. publications as 'Spanish Traces' as well as the San Bernardino Sun newspaper. He participated in the 's mapping project of the Old Spanish Trail and had conducted numerous educational tours through Cajon Pass.

"The Correct Routes of the John W. Robinson - Born in Long Beach, CA. Earned B.A. from U. of So. Cal., M.A. OST from Cajon Pass to Los OSTA member, from Cal State Long Beach. Taught in Newport-Mesa Unified Angeles" Southern California School District in Orange county, California for 32 years. Has Historian, Educator written 12 books, the latest one, Gateways to Southern California, and Hiker that describes trails and wagon roads into the southern part of " " state.

"Cuisines Along the Trail: The Spanish ranchos of the Old West used a now nearly forgotten Charles Perry - Charles Perry is a fourth-generation Californian raised in Los Beef and Mutton cooking method -- building a fire in a pit for seven or eight hours, President, Culinary Angeles. After a checkered career as a Middle East scholar and a 'Barbacoa'" throwing big chunks of meat on the embers and covering the pit for Historians of editor at Rolling Stone, he became a food writer, serving at the anything from six to 12 hours. The result is uniquely delicious; but Southern California Los Angeles Times food section from 1990 to 2008. He has -&- the time, effort and fuel required eventually led to its near published widely on food history and was a major contributor to disappearance in the late 19th century, everywhere except Los The Oxford Companion to Food . chief 'asadero' at the Angeles, where it continued to be wildly popular down to the mid California rancho-style pit 1930s. barbecue

Page 5 of 18 SESSION TITLE(S) SESSION SUMMARY PHOTOS PRESENTER MICRO-AUTOBIOGRAPHY "Descendants of the Trail: Dozens of people emigrated to California over the Old Spanish Rita Vega- Rita Vega-Acevedo is a 7th generation New Mexican who grew Sharing Stories of Our Trail and have hundreds of descendants today. If you are one of Acevedo - up in the northern part of the state. As a native of Española, she Ancestors" these descendants -or a descendant of others that merely travelled President, Southern spent much of her life exploring Santa Fe, Las Vegas, Mora and – audience participatory the Trail- come share your ancestor's story in this moderated California chapter of historic villages, ruins and battle sites. As a graduate of the panel session! the Genealogical University of New Mexico in Latin American studies, she began Society of Hispanic to compile stories of the Old West from her relatives and through America her repeated visits to Santa Fe, Indian reservations and the rural outback. She plans to publish her vignettes, findings and old photos in the near future.

"Descendants of the Trail: Dozens of people emigrated to California over the Old Spanish Donie Nelson - Donie Nelson is a founding member of the Southern California Sharing Stories of Our Trail and have hundreds of descendants today. If you are one of OSTA member & Chapter of the Genealogical Society of Hispanic America and Ancestors II, „the Sequel‟ " these descendants -or a descendant of others that merely travelled Editor, 'Nuestra served six terms as the Chapter‟s President. She‟s also served as – audience participatory the Trail- come share your ancestor's story in this moderated Raices' journal of Secretary and VP on the national GSHA. She was managing session session! the Genealogical editor of GSHA‟s quarterly journal Nuestras Raices for eight Society of Hispanic years, returning in 2010 as editor-in-chief. She also served on the [BONUS Saturday session] America board of the California State Genealogical Alliance and currently serves on the board of the Southern California Genealogical Society. After 17 years as an executive with production companies based at MGM, 20th Century Fox, and Paramount, Donie continues in the film and television industry as a career consultant for writers.

"DNA as a Tool (1): The Y- Dr. Daniels will show us how he the utilization of Y-Chromosome Douglas S. Daniels Douglas S. Daniels has been researching his family's history since Chromosome & Finding the DNA helped to break through a genealogical roadblock. He was - he was a teenager. He initially utilized family papers, oral histories, Kin of John Campbell" able to link DNA on each side of the Santa Fe Trail. The Campbell National President, and archival documents as the primary sources of his family of Missouri, in the American frontier, and the Campbell Genealogical Society research.Today he also utilizes DNA to help solve family family of the Northern Mexican frontier, were determined to have of Hispanic America mysteries. He currently serves as the President of The originated from a common ancestor: a Major from the War of Genealogical Society of Hispanic America. By profession he 1812, John Campbell. practices cosmetic and restorative dentistry at his private dental practice in La Habra, California.

"DNA as a Tool (2): Haplogroups are major categories that show how people migrated Alice Fairhurst - Alice M. Fairhurst is a charter member of the International Haplogroups & the Native from one continent to another. This is particularly informative for DNA Interest Society of Genetic Genealogy (http://www.isogg.org) and American Ethnicity of DNA testers who want to know if their straight male line or straight Group Chair, coordinates the efforts of amateur and professional geneticists to Lorenzo Trujillo" female line is native to the Americas or came from another Southern California keep the Y-DNA Haplogroup Tree up-to-date. A past member continent. Interesting new information was revealed recently with Genealogical Society of the board of the Southern California Genealogical Society DNA from a male line descendant of Old Spanish Trail emigrant (http://www.scgsgenealogy.com) and chair of their DNA Interest Lorenzo Trujillo. Group, she has been active in the genealogical world for more than 40 years.

Page 6 of 18 SESSION TITLE(S) SESSION SUMMARY PHOTOS PRESENTER MICRO-AUTOBIOGRAPHY "DNA as a Tool (2): Leonard Trujillo - Leonard F. Trujillo born in California with roots deep in New Haplogroups & the Native Descendant of Mexico. He is a 3rd-great grandson of Lorenzo Trujillo of the American Ethnicity of Lorenzo Trujillo San Salvador de Jurupa community (Agua Mansa/La Placita) in Lorenzo Trujillo" California. " "

"Documenting the Native The just-opened Southern Ute Cultural Center & Museum will be James Jefferson - Jim is an internationally recognized authority on Ute history and Peoples Along the Old profiled. Their project to interview and record every Native OSTA Director-at- culture. He received his Master's degree and Ph.D. from the Spanish Trail: a Project of American tribe along the Old Spanish Trail will be described. large, Historian & University of Arizona and his Bachelor of Science in Elementary the new 'Southern Ute member of the Education from Utah State University. He is a Ute historian, Cultural Center & Southern Ute Indian member of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, co-author of The Museum'" Tribe Southern Utes: A Tribal History and author of many articles and scholarly papers. Jefferson has a long history as a professor and teacher at the post-secondary, secondary, and elementary levels. He also has served in a variety of posts including Acting Director for the Salt Lake City Indian Center Inc., Folk Festival Coordinator at the Smithsonian Institution, and Southern Ute Tribal Council Member.

"Documenting the Native Lynn T. Brittner - By education, professional experience, and personal passion, Peoples Along the Old Executive Director, Lynn is a dedicated museum professional with more than two Spanish Trail: a Project of Southern Ute decades of experience in all phases of museum development and the new 'Southern Ute Cultural Center & operations. Currently, Brittner is Executive Director of the Cultural Center & Museum, Ignacio, Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum (SUCCM). She has Museum'" Colorado led and represented SUCCM in the development of its new $38 million dollar, 52,000 sq./ft. cultural center and museum campus " " located in Ignacio, Colorado. Earlier in her career, she brought her extensive knowledge and skills to diverse museum roles including collections curator, manager, and registrar at several Santa Fe, New Mexico institutions including IAIA, SAR, and the O„Keefe.

"El Camino Real (de California's 'El Camino Real' streched from the tip of Baja Julianne Burton- [Professor of Spanish Literature & Latin American Cinema, University of California) and UNESCO California to Sonoma, north of Bay linking the Jesuit Carvajal - California, Santa Cruz] World Heritage (later Dominican) missions of Lower California and the Franciscan Professor of Designation" missions of Upper or 'Alta' California. Over 100 years ago the Spanish Literature & California Federation of Women's Clubs and the Native Daughters Latin American of the Golden West joined together to erect the familiar highway Cinema, University bells hung in a crooked staff to mark the route in a loose fashion. of California, Santa But only now is formal recognition being sought through an Cruz international effort in Spain, Mexico and the United States.

Page 7 of 18 SESSION TITLE(S) SESSION SUMMARY PHOTOS PRESENTER MICRO-AUTOBIOGRAPHY "End of the Santa Fe Trail? Was El Monte really "The End of the Santa Fe Trail"? El Monte William F. King - History Professor, emeritus, Mt. San Antonio College. The History of El Monte, was the first non-Hispanic settlement in southern California. The Historian and retired M.A./PhD, Claremont Graduate University. MA Thesis, "El California" site of a Butterfield stage stop, it was home to Confederate Professor, Mount Monte: 1851-1945". sympathizers and the vigilantes known as the Monte Boys. San Antonio College

"End of the Trail and New Dr. Estrada will discuss the complex history and modern-day William D. William David Estrada is Curator of California and American Beginnings: The Los relevance of the Plaza, from its indigenous and colonial origins, the Estrada - History and Chair of the History Department of the Natural Angeles Plaza 1781-2011" Mexican and early American eras, to the present. He will examine Curator & Chair of History Museum of Los Angeles County. His latest book, The Los the impact of change on the lives of ordinary people in a specific History, Natural Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space , was published in 2008 by place, and how this change reflects the larger story of Los Angeles, History Museum of the University of Texas Press. In 2009 it received the California the western terminus of the Old Spanish Trail and, ultimately, what Los Angeles County Book Award‟s Gold Medal by the Commonwealth Club of San it means to be an Angeleno. Francisco, and the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies 2010 Book Award.

"Fresh Off the Trail: The Old Spanish Trail enabled scores of New Mexican families to Miroslava Chavez- Miroslava Chávez-García is the author of Negotiating Conquest: Casilda Sepulveda‟s settle in the region. But not everyone who arrived from New Garcia - Gender and Power in California, 1770s to 1880s (Arizona, 2004) and is „Divorce‟ & Guadalupe Mexico, however, adjusted smoothly to the new community. Casilda Associate Professor, currently working on a new book, States of Delinquency: Youth, Race, Trujillo de Quintana‟s Sepulveda, a local Angeleña, protested her forced marriage to Chicano/a Studies and Science in California’s Early Juvenile Justice System, 1850s to 1940s Murder Trial" Teodoro Trujillo, a recent arrival from New Mexico, and in the Department, (Berkeley, 2012). She teaches courses on Chicana/o history, process ignited a larger controversy over marriage, gender, and University of Latina/o history, race and juvenile justice, U.S.-Mexico border power in California. Guadalupe Trujillo, also fresh off the trail, California, Davis relations, among others. offended local sensibilities when she murdered her Indian servant, Ysabel, reportedly for insolence. Local Angeleños did not take the matter lightly. Rather, they put her on trial and sentenced her to prison. This presentation examines in greater detail these incidents and explores the larger questions they raised about the meanings of marriage, gender, and power in California. "Hidden Treasures: Los • Jay will speak about the Los Angeles City Archives, which Jay Jones - Jay Jones was with the Los Angeles City Archives for twenty-four Angeles City Archives and contains the official historical municipal records of the City of Los retired Archivist, years before retiring as Acting Archivist in 2010. He has degrees the Braun Research Angeles, including the records of the Ayuntamiento of the Pueblo Los Angeles City in History and in Public History and Historic Preservation. He Library" of Los Angeles. Dating from 1827 to the present, the types of Archives lives in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. records available will be described. The use of their finding aids, both in archive and on line, will be explained. • Kim will present "Charles F. Lummis and Collecting the Southwest" and discuss the resources at this century-old library, part of the Southwest Museum.

Page 8 of 18 SESSION TITLE(S) SESSION SUMMARY PHOTOS PRESENTER MICRO-AUTOBIOGRAPHY "Hidden Treasures: Los Kim Walters - Kim Walters has enjoyed more than twenty-six years of library Angeles City Archives and Director, Braun management and has worked for the Autry National the Braun Research Research Library Center/Southwest Museum for more than twenty years. As Library" (Southwest Director of the Braun Research Library, Walters oversees the Museum) & Curator, daily operations of the Braun, identifying preservation and access Special Collections projects, and is responsible for working with researchers. She and Archives, works closely with American Indians who use the manuscript, " " Institute for the photo, and sound recording archives. Walters is also Curator of Study of the Special Collections and Archives. In this position she is involved American West, with the curatorial teams for the Southwest Museum of the Autry National American Indian. She has curated nineteen exhibitions, including Center for the the People of California hall, which opened in 2005, and 400 American West Years of Pueblo Pottery. "Hispano Oral Histories & Would you like to make the Old Spanish Trail come alive in your Lorrie Crawford - Lorrie Crawford is a student employee of the USDA Forest Educational Outreach" community? Discover opportunities to make mules, sheep, trail Education Tech, Service, working on Old Spanish Trail projects for the Carson foods and more part of sensory and fun education programs that Carson National and Rio Grande National Forests in New Mexico and Colorado. can even meet state education standards. In addition, learn about Forest & Rio Her primary goals regarding the OST include, creating ways to gather and present oral histories from community members Grande National partnerships to maximize funding and resources, gathering as with possible ties to the trail. Forest, U.S. Forest much information (archaeological and historic) as possible about Service the trail and then sharing it with the public in the form of education and interpretation.

"Miguel Blanco/Michael Michael White, also known as Miguel Blanco, was among the first Ann Gray - Ann Gray is an architect and former Trustee of the California White: His Story and the to travel to New Mexico from California via the Spanish Trail. He President, Friends Preservation Foundation. She is founder and publisher of Plight of His Adobe" returned with the Temple-Workman party of 1841. Jane Pojawa will of the Michael Balcony Press specializing in art and architecture books and the feature the testimony of this English adventurer as he made his way White Adobe publisher of FORM magazine. across the western desert. The Michael White Adobe's history can be traced to the 1840s. Its history parallels the San Gabriel Valley and the San Marino School District. Ann will be discussing the history of the Adobe structure and plans to rehabilitate it.

"Miguel Blanco/Michael Jane Pojawa - Jane Pojawa is a Southern California-based print media editor White: His Story and the Board Member, who became involved with the efforts to preserve the Michael Plight of His Adobe" Friends of the White Adobe through writing a blog for her husband, Raven Michael White Jake. She is also the media and communications chair for the Adobe Morongo Basin Historical Society and is a past archivist/historian " " for Cabot‟s Pueblo Museum.

Page 9 of 18 SESSION TITLE(S) SESSION SUMMARY PHOTOS PRESENTER MICRO-AUTOBIOGRAPHY "Missionization, An overview of the unique 's Native Americans. John R. Johnson - John R. Johnson has served as Curator of Anthropology at the Secularization and Over 200 years ago, the state was home to one of the largest and Curator of Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History since 1986. He is also Decimation – 18 Unratified most diverse populations of many different tribes, cultures and Anthropology, Santa Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Treaties & No Federal languages, only some of which were "missionized" by the Spanish. Barbara Museum of California, Santa Barbara where he has taught an annual course Recognition: The Decimated by disease and with their numbers severely reduced, they Natural History on California Indians since 2003. He has published a number of Overlooked History of entered the American era only to have the treaties negotiated with ethnohistorical, archaeological, and genetic studies of California‟s California‟s Native the new country unratified by Congress and left forgotten in a original inhabitants. Johnson works closely with contemporary Americans" drawer for over 50 years. While enduring attempts at assimilation in California Indians and recently produced a documentary film, "6 the 20th century, many tribes were "terminated" in the 1950s. Only Generations: a Chumash Family's History" , regarding the history of a in the 1990s did the state of California recognize two of the non- Barbareño Chumash family. federally recognized tribes: the Gabrielenos () and the Juanenos (Acjachemem).

"MULA" From 1830 to 1850, California was plagued by the “Chaguanosos.” Paul Singer - This filmmaking duo spent their working careers in New York (documentary film) They were after mules and California had plenty of them. This Documentary City in advertising and their free time riding horses. They moved motley band of thieves were unemployed trappers, Ute Indians and Filmmaker to Santa Barbara and noticed a revival of Californio New Mexico traders. They plundered ranchos and missions from (w/Susan Jensen), horsemanship. This inspired their first documentary on the Monterey to San Diego and drove thousands of stolen mules and S&J Productions subject titled “Vaquero ” which aired on NBC in California. The horses up the Old Spanish Trail. These mules were headed for filmmakers followed this Vaquero Trail and created their highly Independence, Missouri where they were sold for a fortune. In acclaimed “Vaquero Series ” a Seven-DVD-Set about the Vaquero MULA, you‟ll witness the whole story, told by packers, breeders, legacy. traders, and mule drivers and riders from California to Santa Fe to Missouri and Tennessee. Featured in the film is the aparejo which was the Spanish system for packing mules. Filmmakers Susan Jensen and Paul Singer will be present to answer questions.

"MULA" Susan Jensen - This filmmaking duo spent their working careers in New York (documentary film) Documentary City in advertising and their free time riding horses. They moved Filmmaker (w/Paul to Santa Barbara and noticed a revival of Californio Singer), S&J horsemanship. This inspired their first documentary on the Productions subject titled “Vaquero ” which aired on NBC in California. The filmmakers followed this Vaquero Trail and created their highly acclaimed “Vaquero Series ” a Seven-DVD-Set about the Vaquero " " legacy.

"My Californio Ancestors – Patricia is descended from soldiers who were in the Portola-Father Patricia Velasco A native southern Californian, she attended California State the Lisaldes, Yorbas and Serra expedition of 1769 and will discuss the lives of her people Wilkes - University at Fullerton and UCLA to become a teacher of history Palomares: Life in Alta who settled here. She will also bring some family heirlooms and Genealogist and and choral music. Her published books are “Our California California in the 1830s & keep-sakes from the period to show to the audience. Californio Ancestors ” and “Out of the Past- Sinaloa y Sonora ” which are the „40s" descendant translations of the earliest Alamos church records into English and information of this period from other sources.

Page 10 of 18 SESSION TITLE(S) SESSION SUMMARY PHOTOS PRESENTER MICRO-AUTOBIOGRAPHY "My Californio Ancestors – Raelene Romano - [Pat Wilkes' daughter - helping with the session.] the Lisaldes, Yorbas and Californio Palomares: Life in Alta descendant California in the 1830s & „40s" " "

"The Old Spanish Trail The prevailing hypothesis delineating the Old Spanish Trail LeRoy Johnson - LeRoy is a retired forest geneticist and he carried his scientific from Resting Spring to Salt between Salt Spring and Resting Spring, California, has the trail OSTA member - modus operandi into historical research. He and his wife, Jean, Spring" going north up the Amargosa River to Tecopa. LeRoy and Tom will Tecopa chapter are noted authorities on the 1849 Death Valley emigrants. He, present compelling evidence showing the Old Spanish Trail did not Jean, and Will Bagley are now editing three 1849 gold-rush diaries go to Tecopa. The pack trail left the Amargosa River and went up for The Arthur H. Clark Company. Willow Creek to today‟s Ranch, thence over China Ranch Pass, and descended to Resting Spring; however, the wagon road bypassed the ranch by going up Cowboy Canyon to the pass, thence down to Resting Spring.

"The Old Spanish Trail Tom Sutak - Tom Sutak, a retired criminologist, security expert and from Resting Spring to Salt OSTA member community college instructor, has been studying Death Valley Spring" history for over forty years. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he has researched Jefferson Hunt‟s travels along the Old Spanish Trail and as a guide for the Death Valley „49ers. Tom will publish a book in 2011 that will discuss Hunt‟s travels, his experiences in the Mormon Battalion and his work as " " a legislator from San Bernardino.

"The Old Spanish Trail, Since 1678, New Mexicans had ventured deep into the Yuta country Joseph P. Sanchez - Dr. Joseph P. Sánchez is superintendent of Petroglyph National New Mexicans and the New reaching as far northwest as Timpanogos. Diaries and maps became Superintendent, Monument and the Spanish Colonial Research Center at the Eden, 1678-1850" a window through which Spanish colonials could see the Petroglyph National University of New Mexico. Dr. Sánchez is also founder and extensiveness of the land, its rivers, and resources. Once a route had Monument -&- editor of the Colonial Latin American Historical Review been blazed from Santa Fe to Los Angeles via the Yuta country in Spanish Colonial (CLAHR). Throughout his career, he has researched archives in 1829, nineteenth century New Mexicans saw a unspoiled land Research Center, Spain, Mexico, France, Italy, and England, and has published where new opportunites awaited them. University of New several studies on the Spanish frontiers in California, Arizona, Mexico New Mexico, Texas, and .

Page 11 of 18 SESSION TITLE(S) SESSION SUMMARY PHOTOS PRESENTER MICRO-AUTOBIOGRAPHY "The Old Spanish Trail: Gabrielenos/Tongvas will speak for themselves about their culture Desireé Reneé Desireé Reneé Martinez is Gabrielino (Tongva) and an Cajon to the Ocean and the and history, both past and present, in a panel session moderated by Martinez, archaeologist from Baldwin Park, California. She received her Gabrieleno/Tongva People" Wendy Teeter. Gabrielino BA in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and her – panel session (Tongva), Co- MA in Anthropology from Harvard University; and is completing Director of the her dissertation at Harvard which investigates the relationship Pimu Catalina Island between Native Americans and archaeologists in order to find Archaeology Project ways to incorporate indigenous perspectives into the practice of and PhD Candidate, archaeology. Desireé is a co-Director of the Pimu Catalina Island Department of Archaeological Field School, a native-centered course that melds Anthropology, archaeology with traditional knowledge in collaboration with Harvard University Gabrielino (Tongva) community members. Her dream is to open up a Gabrielino (Tongva) museum.

"The Old Spanish Trail: Julia L. Bogany – Julia Bogany is Cultural Affairs Officer for the Cajon to the Ocean and the Cultural Affairs Gabrieleno/Tongva Tribal Council of San Gabriel. She is also Gabrieleno/Tongva People" Officer, Vice-Chair of Keepers of Indigenous Ways, Inc. She is a member – panel session Gabrieleno/Tongva of the California Indian Basketweavers Association. Julia teaches Tribal Council of the Tongva language and culture at various venues, including the San Gabriel -&- Science and Nature Center in San Pedro, California and the Vice-Chair & Fontana Native American Indian Center in Fontana, California. " " Treasurer, Keepers of Indigenous Ways, Inc.

"The Old Spanish Trail: Mark Frank Acuña Mark is a retired college professor and lectures and volunteers as Cajon to the Ocean and the - tribal ethnobotanist and historian at Botanic Gabrieleno/Tongva People" Gabrieleno/Tongva Garden in Claremont, CA. He has worked on several park – panel session Tribal Council of projects including Smith Park in San Gabriel and Heritage Park in San Gabriel Santa Fe Springs. He was also part of the project that created the Tongva Ethnobotanic Garden at Cal Poly Pomona and developed the Tongva Village site at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic " " Garden.

"The Old Spanish Trail: Wendy Teeter, Dr. Wendy Giddens Teeter, RPA is the Curator of Archaeology Cajon to the Ocean and the Curator of at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. She is the Co-Director of the Gabrieleno/Tongva People" Archaeology, Pimu Catalina Island Archaeology Project that works to assess – panel session Fowler Museum at and document cultural sites and landscapes, while better UCLA understanding the lives of people that made this island their home for more than 8,000 years. She teaches periodically in UCLA's American Indian Studies on the laws and policies " " applicable to the protection of California sacred sites.

Page 12 of 18 SESSION TITLE(S) SESSION SUMMARY PHOTOS PRESENTER MICRO-AUTOBIOGRAPHY "On the Trail Again: The trail committee of the Tecopa chapter has been locating and Jack Prichett - Jack Prichett is a former historical archeologist, who worked and Locating, Recording and recording segments of the Old Spanish Trail in California's Mojave OSTA member - published on the 19th Century . Assessing a 19th Century desert, east of Emigrant Pass in the Nopah range to Stump Springs, President , Tecopa Subsequently, he had a 19-year career in corporate Mule Trace in the Mojave just across the Nevada state line. The team, led by Native American Chapter - communications with a major aerospace firm. Following his near Tecopa" George Ross and including Scott Smith, Whit Smith, Travis California's Death retirement, he became involved with OSTA. He is president of Edwards, Sarah Smith, Barbara Milliken, and Prichett, has GPS- Valley and environs the Tecopa chapter and chairman of the 2011 OSTA conference. recorded and plotted 11 contiguous kilometers of mule trace.

"Pack Mules to Model T A survey of use of the Old Spanish Trail route (particularly the E. Leo Lyman - Edward Leo Lyman is a retired California history teacher, high Fords: From Escalante and western half) from Dominquez-Escalante, 1776 through the OSTA member - school and college, now living in Silver Reef, Utah. He has Armijo‟s Old Spanish Trail beginnings of the Arrowhead Trails Highway in 1916 (from pack President, Tres written a dozen books and three dozen articles, including some in to the Arrowhead Trails mules to Model T's). It will touch on pack mule trains, emigrants Trails Chapter - 'Spanish Traces '. He is presently writing a History of the Southern Highway" and freighters, the railroad through the region, as well as the first St.George, Utah Paiutes . automobile use of the major historic transportation corridor.

"Packing a Mule „the Old Current day mule packing systems evolved from the Aparejo. The Chris Flanagan - Chris is a 5th generation Californian. He was born into a family Spanish Way‟ " Aparejo was the Spanish packing system used on the Old Spanish Mule Packer in of horsemen and raised in Fresno and Clovis, California. His Trail and has a history going back to the Moors in Spain. This Yosemite National grandparents taught him the skills at an early age and by nine, he demonstration will provide an understanding of how Americans Park & Vaquero was taking riding lessons. After graduation from Clovis High adapted this system and how it is used today. Horseman School in 1979, he worked in Yosemite National Park at the Curry Stables, where he learned to pack and ride mules. Over the years, he has worked for several other pack outfits, as well as a couple of cattle outfits in California and Nevada. He now works full time for the Park Service and resides with his wife and three children in Yosemite National Park.

"Packing a Mule „the Old Mike Preston - [Mike will be assisting Chris Flanagan. He is also a mule packer Spanish Way‟ " Mule Packer in in Yosemite National Park.] Yosemite National Park " "

Page 13 of 18 SESSION TITLE(S) SESSION SUMMARY PHOTOS PRESENTER MICRO-AUTOBIOGRAPHY "Packing a Mule „the Old Susan Jensen - This filmmaking duo spent their working careers in New York Spanish Way‟ " Documentary City in advertising and their free time riding horses. They moved Filmmaker (w/Paul to Santa Barbara and noticed a revival of Californio Singer), S&J horsemanship. This inspired their first documentary on the Productions subject titled “Vaquero ” which aired on NBC in California. The filmmakers followed this Vaquero Trail and created their highly acclaimed “Vaquero Series ” a Seven-DVD-Set about the Vaquero " " legacy.

"Packing a Mule „the Old Dave Eubank - [Dave Eubank is graciously bringing us his mule for the Spanish Way‟" Mule owner demonstration.]

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"Pio Pico, Last Mexican Carlos Salomon will discuss the life of Pio Pico and will touch on Carlos Salomon - Carlos Salomon received his Ph.D. in Latin American and Governor of California" Black settlement to early California, the legacy of the Pico family, Assistant Professor Borderlands history at the University of New Mexico. His is Pio Pico's role in the racial tension directly after the US - Mexico of Ethnic Studies assistant professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Latin War, his influence within the early California legal system, his and Director of the American Studies Program at CSU . Pio Pico: The Last business life and his role as an influential leader in post-war politics. Latin American Governor is his first book, Oklahoma, 2010. Studies Program, California State University - East Bay

"Plant Communities Along This talk will take us from the Nevada/California border to the Constance M. Dr. Vadheim is an Adjunct Professor of Biology at CSU the Old Spanish Trail in Pueblo of Los Angeles. We‟ll follow the Old Spanish Trail across Vadheim - Dominguez Hills (Carson CA), where she teaches Plant California" the desert and along the foothills of the San Gabriel mountain Adjunct Professor, Physiology, Environmental Science, The Biogeography of S. range. The time is early spring, in the early 1840‟s, and we‟ll see the Department of California and Restoration Ecology. Her research focuses on S. journey through the eyes of a young traveler. Our traveler is Biology, California California native plants and the effects of harsh environments on fascinated by the unusual plants and landscapes he‟s seeing – so State University – native plants. An avid gardener, she also teaches native plant different from those of his home in Colorado. Along the way Dominguez Hills gardening classes in the community, presenting an ecological and we‟ll visit the Mojave Desert, Desert Riparian, Chaparral and plant community-based perspective on gardening. Dr. Vadheim Coastal Sage Scrub plant communities. Since it‟s been a rainy spends part of her time in SW Colorado, at the other end of the winter, we‟ll see the native California plants in all their native Old Spanish Trail. splendor.

Page 14 of 18 SESSION TITLE(S) SESSION SUMMARY PHOTOS PRESENTER MICRO-AUTOBIOGRAPHY "R.I.P.?: The Disturbance The Plaza Church Cemetery in downtown Los Angeles is the oldest Andrew Salas - Andy is Chairman of the Gabrieleno Band of . of Los Angeles Plaza Church and most historic cemetery in the city. Unfortunately, a new Chairman, He has followed in his father's footsteps working diligently to Cemetery" museum, the Plaza de Cultura y Artes, ignored the designations that Gabrieleno Band of preserve Gabrieleno's sacred resources which include land, should have protected the Cemetery and instead engaged in its Mission Indians history and culture. His primary goal for the tribe is achieving destruction as part of the construction of its overall facility. This federal recognition and he has been working tirelessly to gather paper will discuss the laws in place that should have protected this the resources, knowledge and connections to governmental Cemetery and how those laws were circumvented and ignored in agencies to achieve this goal. He is proud to have worked with what has become one of the worst assaults on highly significant geneologists and anthropologists to verify the lineage of some cultural resources in the history of the City. The Gabrieleno Band 500 Gabrielenos dating back to villages or rancherias of the of Mission Indians were the first to protest the destruction of not 1700s. He is married and a father of four. He also is a small only almost 400 of their ancestors' burials, but also those of others business owner in Los Angeles. buried there. The latest in the effort to properly restore and memorialize the Plaza Church Cemetery will be presented. "R.I.P.?: The Disturbance Christina Swindall- Christina has been active on the Gabrieleno Band of Mission of Los Angeles Plaza Church Martinez - Indians Tribal Council of the for the last two years. Her goal for Cemetery" Secretary, the tribe is to bring about awareness of California Indian history Gabrieleno Band of and also attain federal recognition so that the elders get the care Mission Indians they need and children get the education they deserve. She is married and a mother of two sons. After receiving her BS in Biology from Boise State Univeristy, she went on to obtain her " " Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Colorado State University in 2002 and currently owns her own veterinary hospital in Covina.

"R.I.P.?: The Disturbance E. Gary Stickel - Dr. Gary Stickel received his Ph.D. in Anthropology, specializing of Los Angeles Plaza Church Director, in Archaeology, from UCLA, where he also taught. His major Cemetery" Environmental field projects include Excavations at Achilleion, legendary Research birthplace of Achilles, hero of the Trojan War, in Greece; Archaeologists Excavations at the "Lost City of the Incas", Machu Picchu, Peru, and at the Farpoint Site in Malibu with remains of the Ice Age mammoth-hunting Clovis Culture (in an article on the latter, the " " London Times called Dr. Stickel "The Real-life Indiana Jones"). Dr. Stickel has 45 years' experience working with Native Americans on their California sites. He is honored to be the designated Archaeologist of the Gabrieleno Band of Mission Indians.

“Rediscovering the OST in Southern California presents some unique challenges for the Dennis Ditmanson Dennis Ditmanson is the newly appointed Association Manager California: Organizing New formation of an Old Spanish Trail chapter. At this session we hope - of the Old Spanish Trail Association. He is retired from a career Chapters of OSTA” to open a dialogue on the feasibility of reviving the defunct 'Rancho Association with the National Park Service and lives in New Mexico with his Chapter' and exploring ideas about what a trail chapter in an urban Manager, Old wife, Carol. [BONUS Saturday session] setting might look like. Spanish Trail Association

Page 15 of 18 SESSION TITLE(S) SESSION SUMMARY PHOTOS PRESENTER MICRO-AUTOBIOGRAPHY "Report from OSTA's Representatives from the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Lorrie Crawford - Lorrie Crawford is a student employee of the USDA Forest Federal Partners: National Management and the U.S. Forest Service give an annual briefing to Education Tech, Service, working on Old Spanish Trail projects for the Carson Park Service, Bureau of the Old Spanish Trail Association. Carson National and Rio Grande National Forests in New Mexico and Colorado. Land Management & US Forest & Rio Her primary goals regarding the OST include, creating Forest Service" Grande National partnerships to maximize funding and resources, gathering as Forest, U.S. Forest much information (archaeological and historic) as possible about Service the trail and then sharing it with the public in the form of education and interpretation.

"Report from OSTA's Michael Taylor - [Cultural Resources Specialist, National Trails Intermountain Region, Federal Partners: National Cultural Resources National Park Service] Park Service, Bureau of Specialist, National Land Management & US Trails Intermountain Forest Service" Region, National " " Park Service

"Report from OSTA's Rolla Queen - Rolla Queen is the Heritage Resources Program Manager and Federal Partners: National District District Archaeologist for the California Desert District of the Park Service, Bureau of Archaeologist, Bureau of Land Management in Moreno Valley, CA. He holds a Land Management & US California Desert B.A from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and a Forest Service" District Office, M.A. from the University of Nevada Reno. He specializes in Bureau of Land cultural resources management, historic preservation, and the Management historical archaeology and history of expansion and settlement of " " the American West. He serves as the BLM California state lead for the National Historic Trails ARRA contract.

"Report from OSTA's Sharon Brown - [Chief of Trail Operations, National Trails Intermountain Region, Federal Partners: National Chief of Trail National Park Service] Park Service, Bureau of Operations, Land Management & US National Trails Forest Service" Intermountain Region, National " " Park Service

Page 16 of 18 SESSION TITLE(S) SESSION SUMMARY PHOTOS PRESENTER MICRO-AUTOBIOGRAPHY "Toypurina: California‟s A remarkable Gabrieleno Indian woman named Toypurina led a Andrew Salas - Andy is Chairman of the Gabrieleno Band of Mission Indians. „Joan of Arc‟ " revolt against the Spanish Empire's brutal conquest of her Chairman, He has followed in his father's footsteps working diligently to homeland at San Gabriel Mission in 1785. Her story parallels that Gabrieleno Band of preserve Gabrieleno's sacred resources which include land, of her famous French counterpart, Joan of Arc. Toypurina was the Mission Indians history and culture. His primary goal for the tribe is achieving only Native American woman to have led a revolt in California, and federal recognition and he has been working tirelessly to gather she is the only Native American woman to have led a revolt against the resources, knowledge and connections to governmental Euro-American conquering powers in the United States. Her story agencies to achieve this goal. He is proud to have worked with can be an inspirational one to us all. geneologists and anthropologists to verify the lineage of some 500 Gabrielenos dating back to villages or rancherias of the 1700s. He is married and a father of four. He also is a small business owner in Los Angeles.

"Toypurina: California‟s Christina Swindall- Christina has been active on the Gabrieleno Band of Mission „Joan of Arc‟ " Martinez - Indians Tribal Council of the for the last two years. Her goal for Secretary, the tribe is to bring about awareness of California Indian history Gabrieleno Band of and also attain federal recognition so that the elders get the care Mission Indians they need and children get the education they deserve. She is married and a mother of two sons. After receiving her BS in Biology from Boise State Univeristy, she went on to obtain her " " Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Colorado State University in 2002 and currently owns her own veterinary hospital in Covina.

"Toypurina: California‟s E. Gary Stickel - Dr. Gary Stickel received his Ph.D. in Anthropology, specializing „Joan of Arc‟ " Director, in Archaeology, from UCLA, where he also taught. His major Environmental field projects include Excavations at Achilleion, legendary Research birthplace of Achilles, hero of the Trojan War, in Greece; Archaeologists Excavations at the "Lost City of the Incas", Machu Picchu, Peru, and at the Farpoint Site in Malibu with remains of the Ice Age mammoth-hunting Clovis Culture (in an article on the latter, the " " London Times called Dr. Stickel "The Real-life Indiana Jones"). Dr. Stickel has 45 years' experience working with Native Americans on their California sites. He is honored to be the designated Archaeologist of the Gabrieleno Band of Mission Indians.

"The Trujillo Family: from Anthony Ray will present the story of Lorenzo Trujillo from before Anthony Ray - Anthony Ray is a genealogist and a descendant of the Trujillo Abiquiu to La Placita" his 1794 birth in the New Mexican pueblo of Abiquiu, through his Genealogist and family. His fourth-great grandfather, Lorenzo Trujillo, was the move to California in the 1840s and establishment of La Placita de Descendant of influential leader of the New Mexican colonists. Anthony started los Trujillos and the family's subsequent history through the early Lorenzo Trujillo doing genealogy when he was twelve and has continued doing so 1900s. for the past eight years now. He is the oldest of seven children born to Arthur and Elessar Ray. He is currently enrolled at West Coast Baptist College, studying music in hopes to someday teach music on the collegiate level.

Page 17 of 18 SESSION TITLE(S) SESSION SUMMARY PHOTOS PRESENTER MICRO-AUTOBIOGRAPHY "Urban Trails Workshop: This session will focus on learning how urban environments along Stephen Rhoades - Steve is a Landscape Architect and Principal of Patti Banks How 4 National Trails the Old Spanish National Historic Trail can be transformed into Kansas City Associates a Landscape Architecture, Community Planning and Embrace Metropolitan valuable community resources. A case study of the Kansas City Metrogreen and Natural Resource Planning firm located in Kansas City, MO. His Kansas City" region showcasing the 'Lewis and Clark', 'Oregon', 'California' and Registered design expertise includes urban planning and design; national, 'Santa Fe' National Historic Trails will be presented. Landscape regional and local parks; and greenway and trail systems. Steve is Architect, Patti active in community groups and is committed to creating project Banks Associates - solutions that are environmentally sound and embody the Kansas City, MO principles of Smart Growth and Livable Communities. He received a Knight Fellowship in Community Building from the University of Miami, School of Architecture in 2006. Most recently, he was awarded the Distinguished Partner Award from the Trails Head Chapter of the Oregon-California Trails Association in November 2010. "What‟s In A Name? The Spanish explorers, padres, settlers, and traders crisscrossed the Charlotte Kahl - After 20 years of worldwide travel with Air Force husband, great- „Old Spanish Trail‟ auto world with various types of old Spanish trails. Today's branding of Chair, OST100 - grandmother Ohio-born Charlotte Kahl settled into San Antonio highway and „the other' Old such routes now requires care to overcome confusion by defining Old Spanish Trail 30 years ago to become a community activist and local historian. Spanish Trail Association" past, present and future uses in a concise manner. The name "Old Centennial Appointed by San Antonio Mayor Ed Garza and Bexar County Spanish Trail" was also applied to an early 20th century highway Celebration Judge Nelson Wolff to lead the planning effort for a decade-long running coast-to-coast from St. Augustine, Florida to San Diego, Association centennial celebration of the building of the Old Spanish Trail California. auto highway, Charlotte's travel is now exclusively in southern US Gulf and Border states promoting centennial planning.

"What‟s In A Name? The Charlotte Travis - Charlotte Travis, Ph.D. is a retired public school teacher. She has „Old Spanish Trail‟ auto OST100 - been involved in the San Antonio, Texas community as a highway and „the other' Old Old Spanish Trail volunteer all her adult life. As a hobby she researches her family Spanish Trail Association" Centennial genealogy and ancestors' place in history. Celebration " " Association

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