The winter before last, my wife and I were driving back to L.A. from Mammoth when our car began veering across the lane markers as dust devils rose from the desert floor. We were in an Antelope ...

After a brief illness, William “Bill” Welch passed away at the age of 85 ... North Carolina and Harper Cleland of Los Angeles, California; nieces, Leanne Jolin (Scott) of Old Lyme, Connecticut ...

After his 1935 death in a plane crash, his widow donated the ranch to California State Parks in 1944. The Topanga Ranch Motel was built in Topanga State Park in 1929 by William Randolph Hearst ...