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Lava Beds National Monument

Captain Jacks Stronghold, Tulelake, Ca
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Old Barn
  • Type: Place

Built in 1941, the Old Barn was used to store hay, straw, tack, and the "night horse." Every morning, the night horse and assigned ranch hand would be up before sunrise to bring the other horses from the field. The opening on the right was enlarged sometime prior to 1955.

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Commissary
  • Type: Place

The commissary supplied basics like meat, potatoes, beans, and other canned goods for ranch workers and sheep camps. Sheepherders arriving on horseback, packed burros, and mules would stock up with weeks' worth of provisions and then return to their camps in the mountains.

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The San Antonio Cabin
  • Type: Place

San Antonio Cabin often housed cowboys when this land was privately-owned and operating as a ranch.

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Caretaker's Cabin
  • Type: Place

It is unclear if this building was constructed or moved here in 1951, but it was used to house Ruby and Robert Hoolihan, employees of the Bond Family who owned the land from 1918 to 1963.

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Cowboy Cabin
  • Type: Place

The Bond Family built this house in 1951 for ranch employee Sam Hill, his wife Bertilla, and their two children after Sam complained about the building of the red cabin for the Hoolihans.

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Otero Cabin
  • Type: Place

The Otero (Cupit) Cabin is the oldest standing log structure in the park, built back in 1915. The Oteros, who owned the land from 1899 to 1918, grazed sheep on the mountains and cattle and horses in the valleys. Frederico Otero lived there until 1917, but later occupants included staff working seasonally on the ranch. Names carved over the door frame include Danny, Shawn, and Nathan Cupit and are dated 1967 and 1977.

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Ranch Foreman's Cabin
  • Type: Place

Known as the "Little House," this cabin housed the ranch manager. Like the Bond Cabin, cooking was primarily done outdoors until the Dunigan family remodeled in the 1980s. In both cabins, the additions can be easily recognized because they used vertical board/batten framing instead of horizontal logs. This cabin had continual ranch management use from 1918 up until the early 2000s. It was featured in the show Longmire.

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Bond Cabin
  • Type: Place

Built in 1918 and known as the "Big House," it served as a seasonal home for the Bond family and functioned as the official ranch headquarters. The living room fireplace and wood-burning stove heated the building, and the cooking was done mostly outdoors. An outhouse was used until the Dunigan family remodeled in the 1980s.

Hallie Quinn Brown (ca. 1850- 1949)
  • Type: Person

There are people who give great speeches, and they there are those who perform them. Hallie Quinn Brown was one of the few who perform speeches. In her era, she was recognized as one of the greatest elocutionists across two continents, Europe and America. Though she rarely appears in history books, Brown’s legacy can be found in today’s speech-language pathologists and spoken word artists. She lectured widely on the cause of temperance, women’s suffrage, and civil rights. We

Fort Greble Park
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Battery Carroll and Fort Greble were two defense sites north of the Potomac that guarded the gateway to Washington during the Civil War. Fort Greble was named in honor of Lt. J.T. Greble who was killed at Big Bethel, Va., July 10, 1861.

Gender and Sexuality in Native America: Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, CA
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West-central California has been home to Native populations for many thousands of years. Two of these, the Miwok and the Ohlone were the primary inhabitants of San Francisco Bay's northern and southern peninsulas. Research indicates that both of these tribes recognized gender identities beyond they typical Western conception of male/female.

Collectives, Enclaves, and Gayborhoods: The Castro, CA
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San Francisco's Castro neighborhood is known as the oldest LGB enclave in the country. It began to take shape at the end of World War II when United States detention policies had displaced thousands of Japanese Americans, families were flocking to live in suburban developments, and San Francisco's urban neighborhoods were particularly affordable.

LGB Memorials: National AIDS Memorial Grove, San Francisco, CA
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The National AIDS Memorial Grove began as a community effort to recognize the devastating loss of life from the AIDS epidemic, and an effort to create space for remembrance and grieving.

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Jessie Fenton Fitzgerald
  • Type: Person

In the mid-1900s, at northern New Mexico’s Baca Ranch (which is now part of Valles Caldera National Preserve), owner Franklin Bond sought a ranch foreman to oversee and manage daily operations. According to his daughter, Mary Ann, Mr. Bond hired Richard Fitzgerald as a workaround for what would have been a deviation from gender norms at the time—hiring a woman. The person Mr. Bond really wanted for the job? Richard’s wife, Jessie Fenton Fitzgerald.

Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site

Val-Kill
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From a place she called Val-Kill, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote books and newspaper columns, served as the first U.S. delegate to the United Nations, chaired the committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Val-Kill was a center of her development as activist, humanitarian, diplomat, and one of the most consequential leaders of the twentieth century.

Series: Intermountain Park Science: Drought in the Southwest
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In this issue of Intermountain Park Science, authors examine the consequences of drought and their impacts to both natural and cultural resources in some interesting and often overlooked ways.

“Cracking the code” on mercury bioaccumulation
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Read the abstract and get the link to a published paper on a model to predict mercury risk park waterbodies: Kotalik, C.J. et al. 2025. Ecosystem drivers of freshwater mercury bioaccumulation are context-dependent: insights from continental-scale modeling. Environmental Science & Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.4c07280

The Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 giving the War Department authority to create zones from which Japanese Americans were excluded. The first exclusion area designated was Bainbridge Island. On March 30, 1942 the Japanese Americans living on Bainbridge Island were gathered at Eagledale Ferry Dock and sent to an incarceration camp in Manzanar, CA before being tranferred to Minidoka in Idaho.

Drought, Fire, and Archeology in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico
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In the Jemez Mountains, drought is one key variable causing forest fires that result in a wide range of effects to archeological sites, historic structures, cultural landscapes, and traditional cultural places. This article presents guidelines developed from the ArcBurn project, an interdisciplinary effort to quantify archeological fire effects and the fuels and fire environments that cause them. Intermountain Park Science, 2024