Louise A. Jackson

Louise A. Jackson received her B.A. from UCLA and pursued graduate studies at several universities in California and Nevada. Over the years, her occupations have included business management, elementary-school teaching, historical research, writing, and painting. Her published works include The Mule Men: A History of Stock Packing in the Sierra Nevada; Mineral King: The Story of Beaulah; The Sierra Nevada Before History; The Visalia Electric Railroad: Stories of the Early Years; A Man For His Times: The Sonny Rouch Story; a weekly education column, numerous history articles, and poetry. After living for thirty-two years in the northern Sierra Nevada, Jackson returned to the southern Sierra and now resides in a one-hundred-year-old adobe home in the foothill community of Three Rivers, near the entrance to Sequoia National Park.