

Yee Chung’s family secret
For The Madera Tribune Yee Chung with his Madera wife (left), and the wife he left in China. The year was 1865, and Yee Chung was headed...
Bill Coate
Apr 30


Madera County’s bloody barroom brawl
For The Madera Tribune By 1931, saloons in Madera County had become peaceful, as this photo shows. They stood in sharp contrast to the...
Bill Coate
Apr 26


The birth of The Madera Tribune
For The Madera Tribune George A. Clark in his Tribune office. This is another tale straight out of Arbor Vitae Cemetery, but it begins in...
Bill Coate
Apr 24


Grub Gulch woman won the battle
For The Madera Tribune Judge William Conley found woman “crazy.” Judge Conley’s Madera County courtroom held a standing-room-only crowd...
Bill Coate
Apr 19


The ‘rape’ of Margaret Haley
For The Madera Tribune The site of the false accusation. There is one piece of Madera’s past that represents one of the saddest and most...
Bill Coate
Apr 16


Herbert Macon: First to leave, first to die
For The Madera Tribune Horace and Ida Macon with their son Herbert Macon. He was the first Maderan to die in battle in World War I. War...
Bill Coate
Apr 12


Off-duty peccadilloes turned deadly for lumberjack
For The Madera Tribune Sheriff John Jones brought law and order to Sugar Pine. On May 16, 1905, the Madera County coroner held an inquest...
Bill Coate
Apr 11


Madera persecuted the tax collector
For The Madera Tribune Attorney Joe Barcroft; Charles Preciado’s lawyer. When Madera County voters chose Charles Preciado as their tax...
Bill Coate
Apr 5









