Salinas Valley, California (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"Chapter 11The Salinas Valley is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay."

"When Samuel and Liza came to the Salinas Valley all the level land was taken, the rich bottoms, the little fertile creases in the hills, the forests, but there was still marginal land to be homesteaded, and in the barren hills, to the east of what is now King City, Samuel Hamilton homesteaded."

"When Will was a growing boy, his father had not been long enough in the Salinas Valley to be thought of as an 'old-timer."

"How they happened to go to the Salinas Valley is very easy to understand."

"For some reason the mountains to the west of the Salinas Valley have a thicker skin of earth on them than have the eastern foothills, so that the grass is richer there."

"“And Samuel Hamilton resolved to help greatly with the Salinas Valley Eden, to make a secret guilt-payment for his ugly thoughts.”"

"The sects did more than this, though. They built the structure of social life in the Salinas Valley."

"On the last half-mile, turning out of the Salinas Valley and driving up the unscraped road under the great oak trees…"

"It was a deluge of a winter in the Salinas Valley, wet and wonderful."

"Later Samuel and Adam walked down the oak-shadowed road to the entrance to the draw where they could look out at the Salinas Valley."

"It was a year when the people of the Salinas Valley forgot the dry years."

"…and right here in the Salinas Valley we can raise them all the year around."

"The Salinas Valley lived about as it always had."

"The nation and the Salinas Valley changed its songs."

"Sometimes, but not often, a rain comes to the Salinas Valley in November."

"He was an institution, as much a part of the Salinas Valley as its mountains."

"The grain was slow coming up in the Salinas Valley, and the wildflowers came so late that some people thought they wouldn’t come at all."

"One had just blown his head off in a guard tower at Salinas Valley."

"“But how.” “They used something wood to wedge up the bottom of the fence and went underneath. A broom handle, I think. Dude at Salinas Valley climbed. He grounded himself somehow. Almost got over and they shot him down.”"