The largest county in the continental United States has seen its share of colorful pursuits of suspects and fugitives, including the search for the last Native American in the United States to be tracked to his tragic end by a lawman's posse: Willie Boy at Ruby Mountain. San Bernardino County also was the setting for the shoot-outs at Baldy Mesa and Lytle Creek. Yet gunplay lore is only one aspect of the epic of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. Today the department deploys nearly 5,000 salaried and volunteer employees to protect and serve its 20,186 square miles of deserts, mountains, forests, and increasingly urban areas. This original cow-county sheriff's office went through many developments that are detailed in these vintage photographs sheriffs' administrations, equipment, investigations, and other exploits all culled from the department's archives, private collections, the California Room of the San Bernardino Public Library, and the San Bernardino Pioneer Historical Society.
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Author and historian M. David DeSoucy is a retired veteran of 25 years of service in the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department and is the author of numerous historical articles on the SBCSD, including its connection to the Colton-based Earp family and the clan's most famous son, Wyatt Earp.
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Great Photo History,
By Cliff Mathews (California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department (Images of America: California) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) (Paperback)
I really enjoyed this book. The author did a great job putting together a collection of interesting historical photos that really tell a tale. The photos help to put a face on the history of the SBSD and the area. This book is certainly not a definitive history of the department but that isn't what it is meant to be. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the history of San Bernardino County or the west as it transformed from lawless to suburbanized.
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Take a step back in time, when the law was the law...,
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This review is from: San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department (Images of America: California) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) (Paperback)
Find out what it takes to be the Sheriff of the largest county in the United States of America.
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This review is from: San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department (Images of America: California) (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) (Paperback)
I worked for the Sheriff's Department for many years and still have family members high up in the ranks. I got this book, looking forward to an actual history of the department I so dearly loved and, instead, found a biased "his"tory touting the "good ol' boys" club that has always been the department's biggest downfall and making the only person who actually ever tried to reform it into an objective, fair business sound like a joke. The author was one of the "good ol' boys," so I shouldn't have expected any different, but somehow I stupidly thought it would be an actual history, rather than just the skewed story spinning that it turned out to be. Shame on DeSoucy and shame on the editors for not doing a better background check on who they allowed to write this "historical" book.
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San Bernardino, Courtesy of Patrick Dailey, Willie Boy, Los Angeles, Courtesy of Richard Bise, Sheriff Frank Bland, Sheriff Mueller, Riverside County, Van Leuven, Courtesy of Feldheym Library, Old West, Sheriff Penrod, Sheriff Stocker, Sheriff Walter Shay, Wyatt Earp New!
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San Bernardino, Courtesy of Patrick Dailey, Willie Boy, Los Angeles, Courtesy of Richard Bise, Sheriff Frank Bland, Sheriff Mueller, Riverside County, Van Leuven, Courtesy of Feldheym Library, Old West, Sheriff Penrod, Sheriff Stocker, Sheriff Walter Shay, Wyatt Earp New!
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- San Bernardino County by Automobile Club of Southern California in Front Matter, and page 126
- Willie Boy a Desert Manhunt by Harry W. Lawton on page 26
- San Bernardino Mountains (Explore! Guide Maps) by Automobile Club of Southern California on page 108
- Happy Days by C. Price on page 40
- Pony Express (Wild West in American History) by A. I. Lake on page 11
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