CHAPTER 14: DAWN OF TOMORROW & 15: SUNSET

A quarter-million people…

Three hundred acres, a quarter million people buried, and Mulholland’s grave location verified by calling the Museum Office at Forest Lawn in Glendale in winter of 2019. 

Quotations from the Builder’s Creed:

Llewellyn, J. F. (1998). A Cemetery Should be Forever: The Challenge to Managers and Directors. Glendale, CA: Tropico Press, p. xviii

“Those men of long ago were brave and daring…make and keep California, the golden happy land.”

Flower, E. (1955). A Child's History of California. Caldwell, ID: Caxton Printers, p.172-173, 178

“The inevitable is the inevitable,” 

Hughes, Addison. “A Modern Caesar: ’Bill’ Mulholland, Genius, Super-Man.” Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 1913, p.10

…“broad districts of country which can never be settled” in the way easterners knew.

Rabbitt, Mary C., et al. “The Colorado River Region and John Wesley Powell.” Professional Paper 669, United States Department of the Interior, United State Geological Survey, 1969, doi:10.3133/pp669a, https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0669/report.pdf

“…blossom as a garden with roses.”

Wilber, C. D. Great Valleys and Prairies of Nebraska and the Northwest. Omaha: Daily Republican Print, 1881, p.71

…from the men who built…fed their families through the winter.

Steward, Julian H. “Autobiography of Two Owens Valley Paiutes.” University of California Publications in American Archeology and Ethnography , vol. 33, no. 5, 3 Feb. 1934, pp. 423–438, https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucp033-006.pdf

“…a chance for every man.”

Hughes, Addison. “A Modern Caesar: ’Bill’ Mulholland, Genius, Super-Man.” Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 1913, p.10

…prophecy of the first California governor in 1851…”power or wisdom of man to avert.”

Burnett, Peter. State of the State Address Delivered January 6, 1851, California State Library, http://governors.library.ca.gov/addresses/s_01-Burnett2.html

(Peter Burnett was the first governor of California, an Independent Democrat, from 1849-1851.)