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Hikes up Mission Peak, Fremont, CA
Oral History of Mission Peak
An interview with Roan
McClure, former Mission Peak rancher was conducted on November
24, 2006. All audio files are in the Ogg Vorbis format. This map shows the location on Mission Peak of
the sites mentioned by McClure.
- Peak
Meadow Ranch buildings (8.9 MB, running time 8:18)
- History
of private land ownership on Mission Peak, (5.0 MB, running
time 4:49)
- Daily
life on Mission Peak (2.5 MB, running time 2:20)
- History
of hiking on Mission Peak (5.1 MB, running time 4:53)
- Vineyards
and orchards on Mission Peak (3.8 MB, running time 3:38)
- True
story of the Mission Peak goats (3.3 MB, running time
2:59)
- The
EBRPD and the Peak Meadow Ranch (4.5 MB, running time
3:45)
- Mission
Peak summit monument (3.8 MB, running time 3:34)
- How the
Horse Heaven Trail got its name (1.8 MB, running time
1:43)
- Spanish,
Ohlone and earthquakes (3.8 MB, running time 3:30)
- Mission
Peak's three swimming pools (3.7 MB, running time 3:21)
Written History of the Mission Peak area
by Dennis Rockstroh of the San Jose Mercury News,
- Story of The Cohen Hotel:
Mission Peak as a resort area. Find out how Warm Springs got
its name. (71K with image)
- Early Anglo settlers in the Mission Peak area and their
modern descendents: the McClure
Ranch. (49K with image)
- Lowdown on the Mission Peak wild goats. (36K
with image)
- Residence of the Stanford family at Warm Springs, and
its consideration as a site for Stanford University
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