Where Critters Get the Jitters

Parkfield and its wilderness log cafe lie about halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles, hugging the rugged Diablo Range and an ancient volcano. It’s way back in that vast little known landscape between the Salinas and San Joaquin Valleys. It’s also deep in the heart of genuine cowboy country. Long obscure, it suddenly rose in the 1980s to international fame. This book tells you the story, with seismic poetical humor thrown in. The author’s ancestors first helped settle this valley as far back as 1869. Robert Flood documents a vanishing lifestyle and a little known piece of inland central California’s rich pioneer history.