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Towns of Mount Lassen (CA) (Images of America) (2007. Auflage)

von William Shelton (Autor)

Reihen: Images of America [Arcadia] (California)

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The imposing and dormant peak of Mount Lassen, the southernmost volcano in the Cascade Range, has been held in awe and wonder since well before the California Gold Rush. The Yahi Nation called the volcano Waganupa, meaning the center of the world, and the volcano's peak, named after the Dutch immigrant and prospector Peter Lassen, is the centerpiece of the scenic Lassen Volcanic National Park. Within the guarded perimeters of this park - inducted into the park system under Woodrow Wilson in 1916, hardly a year after the devastation of its most recent eruptions - there was once a thriving lumber industry, narrow-gauge railroad system, and flume network that sustained a community of lumber camps and the lost town of Lyonsville, all threatened by volcanic destruction and the changing West.… (mehr)
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Northern California writer offers pictorial tour of Mt. Lassen’s pioneer towns

“During the 1915 eruption (of Mt. Lassen), Alice Olson and neighbors were fishing on Summit Lake. As smoke and ash intensified, they were forced away from their cabins. Crossing a part of the already devastated area, they led their spooked animals and went to Lyonsville, not returning until the following spring.” (That’s when Olson “spotted a hole in the shingled roof, and upon entering … found a hole in the kitchen table and a five-pound volcanic stone embedded in the floor.”)

History is embodied in this caption, which appears underneath a picture of the simple cabin, and it is unfolded in “Towns of Mount Lassen” ($19.99 in paperback from Arcadia Publishing) by William Shelton. Part of the “Images of America” series, the book includes more than 200 black-and-white photographs, most from Shelton’s personal collection. According to a news release, Shelton himself “is the curator of his own museum which houses his families’ collection (Gathering Grounds Museum in Durham) as well as the Bruce Mansion in Chico.” A retired logger, with roots in the California timber industry going back six or seven generations, Shelton is “also retired from a second career in law enforcement.”

Alice Olson of Red Bluff was the author’s great aunt; Shelton writes that she “homesteaded on Grassy (Horseshoe) Lake and named Jakie Lake for her son, Jakie Olson.”

Native Americans called the mountain “Waganupa,” and the book begins with several mesmerizing images, by Olson and others, of its powerful force. But the story is really about people, and the photographs from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, taken in Lyonsville, Knauss Ranch, Engebretsen Town, Shelton’s Camp, and other locations, give a glimpse into the difficult life of logging.

Tidbits abound. “Samuel Westrope was born in Grants Lick, Kentucky (in) 1813, and was a cousin of Daniel Boone. Arriving in Chico … in 1864, (he) did not fit into city life, so he sold the family’s home and came to what is now Mineral.” “The greatest court trial in Tehama County history to this point was over whether Thomas J. Shelton Sr., who was accused of ‘stealing and carrying away’ 12,600 pine shingles from J. R. Markley, was guilty. He was consequently found not guilty for lack of evidence. This was mainly because the shingles in question had disappeared, having been flumed down to the Sacramento River the previous night.”

Trestles, train wrecks, Dolbeer Donkey engines, the Champion Mill: they’re all here, in a volume that ends with a serene picture of the sleeping mountain, 31 years after the eruption.

Dan Barnett teaches philosophy at Butte College. To submit review copies of published books, please send e-mail to dbarnett@maxinet.com. Columns are archived on the Musable blog, http://dielbee.blogspot.com. Copyright 2007 Chico Enterprise-Record. Used by permission. ( )
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The imposing and dormant peak of Mount Lassen, the southernmost volcano in the Cascade Range, has been held in awe and wonder since well before the California Gold Rush. The Yahi Nation called the volcano Waganupa, meaning the center of the world, and the volcano's peak, named after the Dutch immigrant and prospector Peter Lassen, is the centerpiece of the scenic Lassen Volcanic National Park. Within the guarded perimeters of this park - inducted into the park system under Woodrow Wilson in 1916, hardly a year after the devastation of its most recent eruptions - there was once a thriving lumber industry, narrow-gauge railroad system, and flume network that sustained a community of lumber camps and the lost town of Lyonsville, all threatened by volcanic destruction and the changing West.

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