Our members provide a great source of knowledge related to historical issues. Many of their articles have appeared in the Monthly Bulletins and are reproduced here for your information.

Superior Court Judge Bray was the co-founder of the Contra Costa Historical Society. During the late 1930's and early 40's, Justice Bray gave a series of weekly radio addresses over Station KLX from Oakland, California.

As the list is becoming quite lengthy, the essays can now be found on their own page. Click here to read them.

• Joaquin Murrieta: Literary Fiction or Historical Fact?
"Treasure Ship of the Sacramento"
• Snakes in the Grass: Copperheads in Contra Costa?
• Occupational Snapshots of 1906 Contra Costa County
• Love, Life and Death on the California Frontier: A Woman's Life in Old Contra Costa
• The Great Byron Train Disaster
• The First "Community" of Bay Point
• Don Victor Castro Fights the French
• Grizzly!
• Once Upon a Time in the West
• River Pirates
• Paradise Lost: Building a Socialist Utopia in Contra Costa County
• Likes Murderers: Sheriff Veale Down Under
• "Hang'em High" - Sudden Death In Old Contra Costa
• Contra Costa's Horrific Role in Pearl Harbor
• Aliens Arrive in Diablo Valley
• Sugar Wars and the Bloody Streets of Crockett
• The Petticoat Navy of Contra Costa County
• Diablo Nationals Fight the Reds
• Raid on Marsh Rancho
• Gunfight on Pinole Creek
• The Black Hills of Contra Costa County
• Early County Public Schools
• Horse Sense
• Making Money
• May’s Electronic Make-Over
• Remembering Byron Hot Springs
• Still Waters run Deep
• The Strange Mountain Man of Mount Diablo