History of Butte County, California
Author: George C. Mansfield
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 1408
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Author: George C. Mansfield
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 1408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Harry Laurenz Wells
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Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
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Published: 1882
Total Pages: 430
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George C. Mansfield
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 1331
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Colby
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780738530185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe West Branch of the Feather River in northern Butte County was once a rich mining region. In 1859, an incredible 54-pound gold nugget washed from the flanks of Sawmill Peak, named for the ridge's other main industry, logging. An intricate web of stage roads, and later railroads, linked the little mining and lumber towns that dotted these peaks covered in giant white and ponderosa pine. Steam engines hauled huge logs to mills like the Diamond Match Company, crossing steep canyons on wooden trestles stretched to heart-stopping heights. Some early mining towns like Magalia (once known as Dogtown--site of the gargantuan nugget) and Stirling City, are still there. Others like Nimshew, Lovelock, Toadtown, Powellton, Chaparral, Coutelenc, and Inskip, are ghost towns, inhabiting only the photographs that memorialize their short heyday.
Author: George C. Mansfield
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Booth
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2005-11-09
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 1439614466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver time, the land of the Mechoopda Indians, where elk herds grazed on blue-stemmed grass, became Rancho Arroyo Chico, the land chosen by California pioneer John Bidwell for his stately creekside mansion. Bidwell later founded the town of Chico with its wooden plank sidewalks and iron-front and brick commercial buildings. Today Chico is a dynamic modern city with its own California State University, a wide, tree-lined Esplanade, andthanks to the legacy of Annie Bidwellthe eighth-largest municipal park in the nation.
Author: John Bidwell
Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 378
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aurelius O. Carpenter
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 1072
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Orin Starn
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2005-06-17
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0393293076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the mountains of California to a forgotten steel vat at the Smithsonian, this "eloquent and soul-searching book" (Lit) is "a compelling account of one of American anthropology's strangest, saddest chapters" (Archaeology). After the Yahi were massacred in the mid-nineteenth century, Ishi survived alone for decades in the mountains of northern California, wearing skins and hunting with bow and arrow. His capture in 1911 made him a national sensation; anthropologist Alfred Kroeber declared him the world's most "uncivilized" man and made Ishi a living exhibit in his museum. Thousands came to see the displaced Indian before his death, of tuberculosis. Ishi's Brain follows Orin Starn's gripping quest for the remains of the last of the Yahi.