The Ohlone Way

Two hundred years ago herds of elk and antelopes dotted the hills above present-day San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, and Monterey. Grizzly bears lumbered down to the creeks to fish for silver salmon and steelhead trout. From vast marshlands geese, ducks, and other birds rose in thick clouds. This land of inexpressible fertility, as one early explorer described it, supported one ot the densest Indian populations in all of North America. Over 10,000 people, Ohlones or Costanoans, as they are often called, lived between Point Sur and San Francisco Bay. The Ohlone Way vividly recreates this lost world and the people who lived here such a short time ago...