you can watch more at c-span.org -- cities tour. >> welcome to by celia california. it is the gateway to the national park. it is the center of the nations most productive agricultural region. --visaliaur by celia tour. on the really focuses problem children in our early history. we were remote for many years. what i mean by remote is that los angeles is 200 miles south of us. sacramento is 250 miles north of us. next-doorins are which made a great hideout for people on the run. if you going to practice criminal activity, you want to do that without getting caught. the county made it pretty convenient for outlaws to hideout. when i first thought about this book, i was concerned that i was treating the county unfairly and i was very concerned that i did at paint the county in negative way when it was not deserving. fromrted collecting quotes people of the day. after i looked at all of the examples of what people would say about the county, my conscience was clear and i felt comfortable with the title of my book. it was a wild county. one of the outlaws the called the

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. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to buy celia o visalia, california. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. russell kirk was a leading conservative author born in 1918. his book, the conservative mind, was published in 1953. he wrote a column on education for national review and founded journals.vative senior fellow -- senior fellow john o'sullivan talk about russell kirk's influence and legacy in the future of conservatism. the national review institute cohosted this hour-long event. >> good evening. have been a conservative movement about russell kirk? and what has become of -- will become of the movement for which he played so formative and .eaningful role on behalf of the national review institute, i welcome you all here to this special forum, an opportunity to discuss the consequence of one of conservatism's founding fathers. i am a trustee of the institute. also here are fellow trustees stand town and peter travers. our chairman as well as institute president lindsay cragg. i want to say thank you for being p

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this weekend, american history tv joins our comcast cable partners to showcase the history of i celia california. to learn more about the cities visit current tour, c-span.org/cities tour. we continue to look back now with a look at the history of visalia. this was created to dam some of the waters in the spring time to capture some of that water for later use down in the valley. it was elevated to be able to hold 30% more water. it is used for recreation, but it is important to us down in the valley. one of the largest american communities inside the national park here in sequoia national cup park. when it flooded, it did flood some of the areas, native american areas. they pulled some bedrock mortar up and had it on display here. edy -- inrtar is, in easy terms, they were able to take acorns and mashed their meal. there are lots of places in the park where you see evidence of this. there are pictographs there that are on some of the granite rocks. the college hospital rock because they assume that the native americans use that as a location for measures as you are walking along. it's not uncom