History of Mendocino County, California
History of Mendocino County, California

Author: Lyman L. Palmer

Publisher: Nabu Press

Published: 2014-03

Total Pages: 816

ISBN-13: 9781293787397

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Newpor and Kibesillah
Newpor and Kibesillah

Author: Kathleen M. Nevin

Publisher:

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780692420126

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The colorful history of Newport and Kibesillah, two logging towns on the North Coast of Mendocino County that existed from the late 1860s to 1885.

Logging Railroads of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties
Logging Railroads of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties

Author: Katy M. Tahja

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0738596213

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Locomotive steam whistles echo no more in the forests of the north California coast. A century ago, Humboldt and Mendocino Counties had more than 40 railroads bringing logs out of the forest to mills at the water's edge. Only one single railroad ever connected to the outside world, and it too is gone. One railroad survives as the Skunk Train in Mendocino County, and it carries tourists today instead of lumber. Redwood and tan oak bark were the two products moved by rail, and very little else was hauled other than lumberjacks and an occasional picnic excursion for loggers' families. Economic depressions and the advent of trucking saw railroads vanish like a puff of steam from the landscape.

We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here
We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here

Author: William J. Bauer Jr.

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2009-12-15

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0807895369

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The federally recognized Round Valley Indian Tribes are a small, confederated people whose members today come from twelve indigenous California tribes. In 1849, during the California gold rush, people from several of these tribes were relocated to a reservation farm in northern Mendocino County. Fusing Native American history and labor history, William Bauer Jr. chronicles the evolution of work, community, and tribal identity among the Round Valley Indians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that enabled their survival and resistance to assimilation. Drawing on oral history interviews, Bauer brings Round Valley Indian voices to the forefront in a narrative that traces their adaptations to shifting social and economic realities, first within unfree labor systems, including outright slavery and debt peonage, and later as wage laborers within the agricultural workforce. Despite the allotment of the reservation, federal land policies, and the Great Depression, Round Valley Indians innovatively used work and economic change to their advantage in order to survive and persist in the twentieth century. We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here relates their history for the first time.