Big Bear Tahoe hiking poisoned that paradise

poisoned that paradise

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Big Bear Tahoe hiking poisoned that paradiseIn 1845, Benjamin Davis Wilsonthe future first mayor of Los Angeles and the grandfather of Gen. George S. Pattonled a 20 man posse into the San Bernardino Mountains in search of Native American raiding parties that had been attacking Riverside ranches. But what they found in a particular high altitude valley were, instead, large and furry. Wilsons men soon roped 11 bears, bringing the creatures into camp, and the valley the Serrano Indians knew as