PIUTE PEAK
Kern County - Sequoia National Forest
June 5, 1931: "Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Leibel have moved to Piute Mountain for the summer. Mr. Leibell has entered the government service as look-out at that station." (Bakersfield Californian)
June 25, 1931: "Mr. and Mrs. Orvil Caldwell have moved for the summer to the government road camp on Piute mountain. Mr. Caldwell is employed by the forestry service in connection with the new road being built from Bodfish to the lookout station on Piute peak. This new road makes the station available from the Kern river side, shortening the auto route approximately 50 miles." (Bakersfield Californian)
July 24, 1933: "Assistant Foreman John Potter is building a new road from Bodfish grade to the lookout station on Piute mountain." (Bakersfield Californian)
April 3, 1935: "The Three C boys camped in Loraine canyon are putting up a telephone line from Tehachapi to the Piute lookout station." (Bakersfield Californian)
June 29, 1936: "The high winds sweeping over the tops of the mountains made it necessary for the lookout located on Piute to be re-anchored. Ted Leibel who is located there, had several exciting moments until this was accomplished." (Bakersfield Californian)
November 16, 1942: "Floyd J. Walker, 35, 1 forest fire lookout at Piute Mountain, sixty miles northeast of Bakersfield, was crushed to death yesterday when he is believed to have napped at the wheel of his automobile and the car crashed into a shallow ravine.
The accident occurred seven miles below Piute Mountain lookout while Walker was enroute back to his post in the Sierra after visiting his family at Rosedale." (The Fresno Bee The Republican)