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A History of Two Open-Door California Communes:

Table of Contents	links to the full text
	Introduction
Beginnings	one
First Arrivals	two
three	The Digger Farm
four	Early Problems
Slim's First Acid Trip, Nevada, Hepatitis	five
Ye Olde Doublecross	six
Court Dates And The Injunction	seven
eight	More Arrests and Bill Wheeler's Offer
Early Days on the Ridge & The Naked Cop	nine
First Ridge Settlers	ten
eleven	The Ridge Tribalizes & Lou Finds His Guru
twelve	The Ridge Raid & John Butler Is Murdered
County Inspection & God Receives a Present	thirteen
fourteen	Black Sunday
Ridge Summer & An Interview With Tex	fifteen
Baby Raspberry Arrives & Parents Visit	sixteen
seventeen	The Ahimsa Church, The Manifesto & Another Inspection
eighteen	Babes In The Woods
The Halloween Raid	nineteen
Relationships & Sol Ray's Birth	twenty
The First Death & The Mighty Avengers	twenty one
twenty two	A Friend Retires & The Big Dope Raid
twenty three	How Morning Star Ranch Was Named ... & Oak Grove David
Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind	twenty four
twenty five	Other Lands
Afterword

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