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Del Norte County Historical Society, Published 2017. Paperback, 173 pp. plus unnumbered leaves of plates; 23 cm; Third Printing 2017 stated, following printings of 1997 and 2001; illustrated with black-and-white photographs on unnumbered leaves following thirty of the forty-nine chapters.
In Very Good condition. Black-and-white pictorial paper covers with blue lettering on front and spine, light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, a bit of sticker residue at lower corner of rear cover. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Local-history columns written by Ralph L. Hughes for Del Norte County newspapers before his death in 1980, collected by his surviving brothers and sisters. Hughes was born at Requa at the mouth of the Klamath, eldest of twelve children, and gave up a scholarship to work in the family lumber mill. Subjects are the lower Klamath and the coast: canneries, ferries, shipwrecks, shake mills and shipbuilding, the salmon runs, the 1955 and 1964 floods that destroyed Saffords Island, Crescent City's early years, Hiouchi and Smith River, and the county's Boy Scout troops. Closes with his autobiography and tributes from his siblings. Front cover photograph shows Oregos Rock at the mouth of the Klamath River. Contents: Requa, California; Klamath & W.T. Bailey; Saffords Island; The Tucker House; Carrying the Mail as of Old; The Cheese Factory; Sawmills on the Klamath; The Klamath Mill & Transportation Company; Shipping on the Klamath; Little Nanny; The Wreck of the Katata; The Saga of the Marie; Ferries on the Klamath; Canneries on the Klamath; Fishing; Klamath River Salmon; Colorful History of Boating on the Klamath River; Lower Klamath; About Captain Crone; Captain Spott; Billy Brooks; Captain Jack; Crest City, California; Crescent City's Early Years; Lake Earl; Lake Earl Old Mill; Railroads in Del Norte; Looking Back; Wind & Water; The Childs Building; The House of Seven Gables; Dr. Ernest M. Fine; Andy Hamilton; X.A. Phillips; Wolf Morris; Smith River; Hiouchi; Scouting in Del Norte; Scout Hall; Summer Camp - Troop 10; Jedediah Smith Told of Travels thru Del Norte; Jedediah Smith State Park; The Del Norte County Historical Society; Wild Flowers; Autobiography; Reflections; A Personal Prayer; Tom Van Pelt - Pioneer; Tributes.