Finding Nostalgia at the Callahan Emporium… You’d be forgiven if you’ve never heard of Callahan, an unincorporated community along State Route 3, population 50 or so. The nearest “bigger” town …
Echos of the Past
Taking the Field at Red Bluff Civil War Days… Flash back to the early 1860s when men rode horses, carried muskets and charged each other with bayonets wearing hot wool …
Baking for the Ballot
Suffrage Angel Cake… The suffrage movement in the United States began in 1848 when women demanded the right to vote at the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y. It …
Both Service & Society
The First Woman in the US Forest Service, Hallie Daggett… In Etna’s city park sits a little wooden cabin, its simple exterior belying the complicated and trailblazing woman who once …
Taking Hollywood by Storm
The Amazing Career of Etna’s Anita Loos…. She was born in Sisson (now Mount Shasta) in 1889 and buried in Etna in 1981, but for six of her nine decades, …
Romantic At Heart
The Victorian Gillis House in Yreka… Romanticism as a movement may have actually predated the Victorian period, but it’s hard not to fall in love with a Victorian house. That’s …
Saloon Murals
Big Valley Round Up Saloon Murals… He may have been the mid-century Michelangelo of Lassen County or, more likely, an itinerant artist with a taste for whiskey who didn’t feel …
Holidays in Time
Holidays on the Homestead at William B. Ide Adobe State Historic Park… For those who feel the holidays have become too commercial, an antidote may be a step back to …
Gentleman Bandit
Wells Fargo Stage Bandit Black Bart… Charles Boles was many things. A veteran. A prospector. A teacher. A poet. He was also the most successful Wells Fargo stage bandit in …
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