Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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When I finished my last column on Peter Lebec I thought I had put him to rest. That is, until I received a phone call from local historian Del Troy. She told me she had some more information concerning the mystery surrounding his death. I met her at the Tehachapi Museum and she showed me a book, one of several volumes written by Bonnie Ketterl Kane entitled, “A View from the Ridge Route, Volume One: The First People. “ For those of you who are too young to remember, the Ridge Route was the ear...
I recently traveled to Fort Tejon to attend a dinner put on by the Kern Economic Development group. When we exited the freeway we drove past Fort Tejon. I told the group I was riding with that I had not been there since I was about 10 years old, and remembered the tree with the epitaph carved in it about the death of Peter Lebec. No one knew what I was talking about. Coincidentally as I was once again working on boxes brought home from my storage unit I found a book entitled “The Life and D...
