Baking Bread at the Carey Ranch
San Francisquito Canyon
1920s postcard: "Baking bread Navajo fashion. Harry Carey Trading Post, Saugus, California."
Actor Harry Carey operated a trading post that doubled as a movie set
at the southern end of San Francisquito Canyon in the 1920s.
It was a popular tourist attraction, with Native American displays, demonstrations and
live performances. The Carey Ranch was wiped out in the St. Francis Dam Disaster
of March 12-13, 1928. The Carey ranch house was later rebuilt, but the trading post was not.
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