Old Shasta (Images of America) - Tapa blanda

The Town Of Shasta Interpretive Associat

 
9780738530949: Old Shasta (Images of America)
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ISBN 10: 0738530948 ISBN 13: 9780738530949
Editorial: ARCADIA PUB (SC), 2006

Sinopsis

Shasta grew rapidly to be the "Queen City of the Northern Mines" after news of a second California gold strike reached the ears of fevered and footloose forty-niners. Miners swarmed into what became Shasta County, stopping to rest at Reading Springs, soon to be renamed Shasta. A few, more practical fortune-seekers gained their wealth by supplying the gold-hungry miners with the necessities of life. Stages and wagons rumbled back and forth to Red Bluff on deeply rutted trails bringing supplies. Frequent fires devastated early Shasta and "fireproof" brick structures rose from the ashes, some of which still stand today. Shasta was a thriving community in 1872, until the Central Pacific Railroad chose to bypass Shasta and build its terminus on a nearby site to be renamed Redding. Shasta slowly dwindled to a ghost town, its buildings vacant and crumbling by the 1920s. With the help of descendants of pioneer families who teamed up with state officials to preserve the remaining structures, Shasta State Historic Park opened to the public in 1950.

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Acerca del autor

Authored by Prof. Al M. Rocca of Simpson University and a talented team of researchers and curatorial staff at the Courthouse Museum, this book and its images carry us back to a colorful era in California history, a time when tragedy and misfortune were common, but anything was possible.

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Editorial
ARCADIA PUB (SC)
Año de publicación
2006
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0738530948
ISBN 13 
9780738530949
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
128
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