This is the first complete-as-humanly-possible history of the Kern County Fair through 1952. Inside are exhaustively researched and documented details of the business goings-on that made Kern fairs possible from the mid-1870s to the Great Quake of 1952. Included throughout are scores of fun, nostalgic, sweet, and thrilling stories and descriptions of horse races, rodeos, hot-air balloons, death-defying aerial performers, speed demons, musicians, and spectators of the time.