View of the rough terrain on the side of a mountain at Castle Craig, Shasta County, ca.1900-1940

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Title	View of the rough terrain on the side of a mountain at Castle Craig, Shasta County, ca.1900-1940
Description	Photograph of a view of the rough terrain on the side of a mountain at Castle Craig (now Castle Crag State Park), Shasta County, ca.1900-1940. Trees and shrubs cover the slope of the mountain and its rocky outcrops.; "The Castle Crags Wilderness was established in 1984 with the passage of the California Wilderness Act. This 10,500 acre addition to the National Wilderness Preservation System contains towering spires, steep-sided canyons, and a few alpine lakes. Most of the area is covered by high brushfields and rocky outcrops with a few wet meadows in the creek headwaters. Mixed conifer forests can be found on the north, east and west facing slopes. For thousands of years, the Indians living around the base of Castle Crags regarded this formation with awe and superstition, rarely if ever venturing up into its heights. After a few years of gold rush in the 1850's, the relationship between miners and Indians strained to a breaking point. The result was the 1855 Battle of Castle Crags, which marked the beginning of the long and drawn-out Modoc War. The primary location of this battle was at the very northwest end of the Crags between what is now known as Battle Rock and Castle Lake. By 1886, construction of the Southern Pacific Railroad through the Sacramento River canyon was completed, resulting in extensive lumber and mining operations. Chromium mines were operating as late as the 1950's in one part of the Castle Crags. Today none are operational, and most mines have been swallowed up by the re-emerging wilderness. In 1933, concerned citizens succeeded in acquiring much of the land that became the Castle Crags State Park." -- unknown author.
Subject (adlf)	mountains
Subject (file heading)	Shasta County -- General
Subject (lcsh)	Mines and mineral resources Mountains
Geographic subject (county)	Shasta
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1900/1940
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1900/1940
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Format (aat)	photographic prints photographs
Accession number	5073
Call number	CHS-5073
Microfiche number	1-84-
Legacy record ID	chs-m2666; USC-1-1-1-14329
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-5073
Archival file	chs_Volume36/CHS-5073.tiff

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