"Yucaipa's Orchard Man" traces the history and heritage of one of Yucaipa's most respected pioneer orchard men, Ellis Pitt Beasley, back to his great-grandfather, John Pitts Beasley, in the southeastern Piedmont area of Amelia County, Virginia in the 1700's. His son, also named John Pitts Beasley, was among the first wave of frontier settlers after the Revolutionary War and War of 1812, to endure dangers and hardships to emigrate with animal-drawn wagons to the edge of a rugged frontier in Middle Tennessee. By 1817, John and his family lived in the Leiper's Fork community on Bear Creek in...