Historic Newspaper Archives

Dozens flee as wildfires rage in California desert

Rocky Mount Telegram
July 13, 2006

Firefighters evacuated dozens of homes Wednesday as a wildfire raced across 26,000 acres of desert and destroyed 30 homes and buildings in an area where Gene Autrey, Roy Rogers, and others filmed Hollywood Westerns.

Fire officials worry fire
could reach national forest

Ukiah Daily Journal
July 14, 2006

A huge wildfire was edging toward San Bernardino National Forest Thursday, worrying fire officials that I could grow rapidly and get close to the resort community of Big Bear Lake and add to the nearly 100 structures it had already devoured.

Calif. fires on collision course

The Index Journal
July 14, 2006

A wildfire that has already burned 40,000 acres and destroyed 100 buildings roared through high desert wilderness. Thursday, threatening to merge with a fire in national forest land filled with dead, dry trees.

Two big Calif.
wildfires merge

Pittsburgh Post Gazette
July 15, 2006

Thousands of firefighters aided by aircraft yesterday worked in fierce heat to keep two big wildfires from gaining a foothold in the heavily populated San Bernardino Mountains, where millions of trees killed by drought and bark beetles could provide explosive fuel.

Golf challenge began as desert road game

The Desert Sun
August 31, 2014

The dirt back road between the towns is still unpaved, but the Pioneer Pass Golf Challenge has soldiered on, unfazed, for 56 years. Proceeds from the tournament, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Yucca Valley, goes to the Morongo Basin Historical Society and Miracle League of Morongo Basin, a baseball field and league for kids with special needs.

Film Group Buys Land for Project

Hollywood Citizen News
August 18, 2021

Film Group Buys Land for Project The purchase of 13,000 acres of rolling desert land between Palm Springs and Twenty-Nine Palms for use as a combination studio location site and rendezvous, to be made available to studios, was announced yesterday…