Jack London wrote The Valley of the Moon in 1913 at his Beauty Ranch above Glen Ellen. The land is now Jack London State Historic Park. Each week the Wag reprints a passage from the valley’s most famous resident.
Forsaking the main road, they crossed Wild Water on a narrow bridge and continued along an ancient, rutted road that ran beside an equally ancient worm-fence of split redwood rails. They came to a gate, open and off its hinges, through which the road led out on the bench.
Jack London, The Valley of the Moon (1913)
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