Dottie Smith's books on early Shasta County also provided details of Indian and Chinese life in northern California. Unfortunately the specific massacres mentioned did occur. The laws permitting annihilation of native people and the purging of Chinese are true. The Dictionary of Early Shasta County History and The History of the Chinese in Shasta County provided verification of the indentured status of Indian people in California by non-Indians and the discrimination of the Chinese, especially young women, along with efforts to assist them. In the Shasta area, there were local people who provided paid, protected work for Indian people as Mazy did. Ms. Smith also documented that, like Mazy and Elizabeth, at least one woman owned her own business in Shasta County as early as 1852. Women lived in mining towns; they had varied occupations. JoAnn Levy's works about women in the California gold rush offered information about the Rays and the Sacramento Theater as well as details of mining life. There is no evidence that the Chinese were protected and moved out of California via the theater; but the underground to protect them did exist in California and Oregon, and there is no reason to believe creative use of the arts would not have been employed as Esther, Suzanne, and Tipton envisioned.
In February 1859, the Chinese were expelled from California. The Act for the Government and Protection of the Indians known popularly as the Indenture Act was repealed in 1864 but continued to force natives into bondage well into the years after the Civil War.
The book The Table Rocks of Jackson County: IsUnds in the Sky, compiled and edited by Chris Reyes, provided detail not only of flora and fauna but also about the early Takelma and Rogue River people of southern Oregon. Stephen Dow Beckhams book Requiem for a People offered context for settlers seeking a new life in the land occupied by Indians on the California coast and in southern Oregon territory in 1853-54. The photography section of the Oregon History Center shared images of early Jackson County that inspired. There was a Baptist circuit rider that helped lead the Table Rock Baptist Church in 1853, but his name wasn't Burke Manes, a fictional name I just liked. Historic street and business information about Jacksonville came from Jacksonville Oregon: The Making of a National Historic Landmark by Bert and Margie Webber and from Barbara Hegne s book Settling the Rogue Valley, the Tough Times—The Forgotten People, which also provided records of women in the mining region and people of color in the Rogue Valley including the detail that the 1853-54 school term lasted only a month with the entrance of one lone African American girl. The Cole brothers had a cabin on Cottonwood Creek in the Siskiyou Mountains that later became Colesteins Stage Stop, which is in service today as a bed-and-breakfast. Photographer Peter Britt did come to Jacksonville in 1852 and planted a vineyard. Today the region is known for its lush orchards and vineyards nourished by a temperate climate and rich soils; and an international music festival is held yearly in Jacksonville, bearing Peter Britt s name. Visitors are welcome there as well as in historic Jacksonville. The entire town was added to the National Historic Registry in 1966. Shasta City, Crescent City, Sacramento, and Cassville, Wisconsin, are additional communities that offer rich opportunities to rediscover histories we didnt know we'd lost.
The Table Rocks of southern Oregon lure visitors still today. The views and vistas from their rim rocks confirm that wherever we allow, the Lord does know our lot and makes our boundaries fall on pleasant places.
Thank you again for following these women. It is my hope that you found nurture inside their stories and that their journeys have added to your lives.
Sincerely,
Jane Kirkpatrick
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What Once We Loved
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What once we loved / by Jane Kirkpatrick— 1st ed.
p. cm— (The kinship and courage historical series; bk. no. 3)
1. Female friendship—Fiction. 2. Women pioneers—Fiction. 3. Oregon—
Fiction. I. Title.
PS3561.1712W48 2001
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Table of Contents
Cover
Other Books By This Author
Dedication
Cast Of Characters
Chapter 1 - Poverty Flat
Chapter 2 - The Fog Of Indecision
Chapter 3 - Severing
Chapter 4 - A Jack-Of-All-Trades
Chapter 5 - Stands Of Hope
Chapter 6 - A Woman She Wasn't
Chapter 7 - Tell It To My Eyes
Chapter 8 - The Signs Of Hunger
Chapter 9 - The Fence Around Wisdom
Chapter 10 - In Pursuit
Chapter 11 - Stimulating Change
Chapter 12 - Intrigue
Chapter 13 - The Truth Shall Make You Free
Chapter 15 - Learning To Receive
Chapter 16 - One Good Thing That Is
Chapter 17 - Passages
Chapter 18 - Warders Of The Soul
Chapter 19 - The Same as Praying
Chapter 20 - Riding the Horse of Intent
Chapter 21 - Within Reach
Chapter 22 - The Promise Of a Spring
Chapter 23 - Companions: Breaking Bread Together
Author's Notes And Acknowledgments
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