When I lived in Fortuna (many years after this story), I use to love going to Fort Humboldt. I was impressed with how small it was, the fact that Ulysses S Grant had been stationed there (prior to the Civil Way), and the tragedy of how the peaceful natives were treated. I was also impressed that their methods of cutting down a Redwood were very similar to how the early Lumberjacks did it, except they did it with sharpened stones.
When I lived in Fortuna (many years after this story), I use to love going to Fort Humboldt. I was impressed with how small it was, the fact that Ulysses S Grant had been stationed there (prior to the Civil Way), and the tragedy of how the peaceful natives were treated. I was also impressed that their methods of cutting down a Redwood were very similar to how the early Lumberjacks did it, except they did it with sharpened stones.
We are related to the Wiyots, who were massacred on Indian Island in 1860. Didn't make it into Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"