Stephen Barile
/ GreyThoughts.Info…first explored by Spanish Army troops
From the mission at San Juan Baptista,
Led by Jose de Guadalupe…
By Stephen Barile
“We consider the new mines…
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…was worthless,
Getting to the mines was everything.
Three-thousand dollars was raised…
By Stephen Barile
To venture inside
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…and grief pursued him,
Not unlike his needing a shave,
when he turned…
By Stephen Barile
Where the buttress of concrete Stands…
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…the freeway came, there were
Small houses, in neat, squared off rows,
On San Benito Street. Tiny front yards…
By Stephen Barile
…party of Mexican deer hunters
In the New Idria Mining District,
On the eastern edge of the…
By Stephen Barile
Tulare Lake mostly disappeared
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…Lake mostly disappeared
It’s life ended, the lakebed sold
To agricultural…
By Stephen Barile