Editorial conveyed impression of harry Love as a colorful figure with a life full of adventure and a long time local resident in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The range of the article is from his birth in Vermont, his time at sea, his involvement in the military campaigns in the War with Mexico as a mail rider, scout and, spy for the US at the rank of Captain. He did service in law neforcement in Southern California and later as a leader of the California Rangers. He owned a small sawmill above Ben Lomond which later was destroyed by floods. The article refers to Harry Love as "an intelligent, generous man with bravado "as we would expect of a frontiersman.