Falk's Claim: The Life and Death of a Redwood Lumbertown - Couverture souple

Gates, Jon Humboldt

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1878136011 ISBN 13 : 9781878136015

Editeur : Moonstone Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

Nominated for the Forest History Award, Falk's Claim chronicles a California north coast redwood lumber community from it's bustling early days in the 1890's though it's decline to a ghost town in the 1950s. Told through personal histories, it is a vivid portrait of a disappearing way of life in small rural communities. Richly illustrated with more than 60 black and white photographs, the daily lives emerge - trusted neighbors, the rough-edged ways of the lumber camps, the town characters, the kids, the fights and the festivities. The author discovered the abandoned ghost town in 1968 while hiking in the Elk River Valley and became fascinated with the scores of vacant structures, including trestles, the mill, shops, the general store, cook house, homes, tools, wood stoves, vehicles and other memorabilia of the times. The author spent 10 years interviewing people who'd lived in the town, collecting photographs and reconstructing the history of the Falk ghost town. Throughout this tale, the sense of change and renewal challenge our notions of permanence, reminding us that our history is but a moment when measured against the enduring cycles of nature.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jon Humboldt Gates is a fifth-generation native of Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. His great-great-grandparents came West by wagon train during the California Gold Rush in 1849, and his grandfather was a miner in the Klondike Gold Rush, near Dawson City, in 1900. Jon, who has lived most of his life in Humboldt County, the San Francisco Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest, has been a travel writer, historian, musician, story teller, business journalist, and co-founder of the international market research firm OTR Global. He and his wife now live near the Columbia River in Oregon.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Moonstone Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1878136011
• ISBN 13: 9781878136015
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 184
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible