Indio by Baker Laflin, Patricia

Indio

Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in...
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Author: Patricia Baker Laflin
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Language: English
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Indio by Baker Laflin, Patricia

Indio

€36,12

Indio

€36,12
Author: Patricia Baker Laflin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed this last link in its southern transcontinental route. Settling this arid land took ingenuity and courage, and Indio's early residents had both. In the 1930s, Indio became a mining town when 92 miles of tunnel were dug through its eastern mountains for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the largest construction project in the United States during the Depression. World War II brought Gen. George Patton's Desert Tank Corps to train nearby and crowd into Indio for rest and relaxation. The completion of the Coachella Branch of the All-American Canal brought Colorado River water to the desert in the late 1940s, and a land boom ensued. Today Indio's reputation as the Date Capital of the United States and City of Festivals is long held and well deserved.

Author: Patricia Baker Laflin, Coachella Valley Historical Society
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: 01/30/2008
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.58w x 0.36d
ISBN: 9780738556185

About the Author
Baker Laflin, Patricia: - Author Patricia Baker Laflin has lived in or near Indio since 1950. As a history major at University of California Berkeley, she met and married fellow student Ben Laflin, the son of pioneer settlers in the Coachella Valley. Laflin learned of Indio s past from these pioneer families and their friends and from her work with the Coachella Valley Historical Society for whom she has authored 13 books. Most of the photographs in this book come from the society s archives.

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