Muroc, California (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dana V. Kilanowski.

The Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC), Edwards Air Force Base (AFB), has received a grant under the Department of Defense's Legacy Resource Management Program to conduct oral history research on the life and times of Pancho Barnes and her Happy Bottom Riding Club. The specific purpose of the project is to interview and record oral history concerning the life and times of Pancho Barnes while informants are still alive and available to interview.

DOCUMENT Full-Text David D. Earle.

This report presents a history of the settler community of Muroc, California, which was located on what would later become Edwards Air Force Base (AFB). This report chronicles the development of Muroc and places it in the context of a series of critical historiographical themes relating to railroad development, homesteading, and the settlement of the arid West.