North Fork Country is the story of Old Kernville ( now sleeping beneath the waters of Lake Isabella), Tilly Creek, the newer Kernville, and the more ancient villages, ranches, camps, and mountain hideaways strung like bucolic beads along the Kern's valleyed thread of the mountainous North Fork.

The pages of this book are rich with tales of the heroic, lovable, and sometimes strange people who for generations have inhabited this center of rugged and isolated grandeur. More than two hundred rare and historic photographs bring the region and its people alive. Here are its ranchers, merchants, miners, preachers, outlaws, and sheriffs.