Monte Wolfe

Monte Wolfe (April 20, 1886 – March 7, 1940), born Archie Edwin Wright on the lands of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations. During his lifetime he used the aliases Lone Wolf, Archie Arlingtone, E.D. McGrath, U.S. Forest Service Ranger Gorham, and his preferred alias, Monte Wolfe.

His early life was characterized by repeated family homestead migrations to the Minnesota and Dakota Territories, then on to California, and Washington state. At each homestead location, the family built log cabins and barns, dug wells, and planted wheat and other crops.

White was a pioneering post-Spanish–American War aviator, aeroplane mechanic, and sailor with the Great White Fleet. He was also a skilled cowboy and 20 mule teamster, a prospector and miner for gold and coal, and a lone winter fur trapper with a vast trap line that ran from Northern Yosemite to Lake Tahoe.

In his later years, he became widely known as a notorious nighttime campsite “visitor”.

He was a skilled builder of log structures like barns, cabins, and out-structures and he worked alone. His log cabin survives, deep in the Mokelumne Wilderness to this day.

Navy career Archie Edwin Wright was born on April 20, The 2nd Company, 2nd Aero Squadron received two Wright Brothers aeroplanes and was based, in Hawaii.

As the U.S. entry into World War 1 approached, the 2nd Aero Squadron was redeployed to Kelly Field in San Antonio, TX. The voyage was to originate in Manila, with stopovers in Guam and Hawaii before arriving in San Francisco, CA. The following morning, the airmen boarded a train and began their final leg to Kelly Field. Archie never made it to the train. He had to go home to Goldie and his kids in Modesto.

But... he was too late. In desperation for her family, Goldie had met another man and subsequently became pregnant in 1918.

Goldie soon moved with the, now five children to Sacramento.