Here’s a closer look at a few key people who tell West of the West’s story, from a Chumash descendent to a celebrity conservationist.
Lone Woman Expert
Even after six years of researching the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island, Susan Morris is still making discoveries. “It’s just so fascinating,” she said. Morris has corrected key details in the bloody chain of events that led to the Lone Woman’s nearly two decades of isolation, and she recently pinpointed where the marooned Nicoleño died of dysentery seven weeks after her “rescue” in 1853 — in an adobe house on the corner of Quinientos and Quarantina streets. Soon, Morris will publish a new report that sheds even more light on her time on the mainland.