The King of Capistrano: Richard Egan and the Railroad(2023)
Richard Egan: Renaissance Man, Justice of the Peace, Keeper of Rainfall Records, Indigenous Rights activist, Member of the Sequoya Club with Charles Fletcher Lummis and John Muir, Member of the Landmarks Club to save the Mission San Juan Capistrano, Right of Way man and later a Director of the Santa Fe Railroad, Pen Pal of Helen Hunt Jackson, Friend of Mara Ellis Ryan, actress Madame Modjeska, and nearly all of the late 19th C. Rancheros who owned Orange County south to Oceanside.
The Marriage of Modesta Avila (2023)
Despite claims that Modesta Avila died in Prison after defying the Santa Fe Railroad running track across her land without her permission in 1889, several facts including her marriage following her prison term at San Quentin show that she survived her ordeal.
