A companion plate · 1878–1956
Where the stories took place
Follow the Trinity from Willow Creek toward the lower Hoopa valley. These shapes come from land and mineral records: they show where a record applies, while the stories and newspaper accounts tell us who passed through.
Willow Creek Sugar Bowl Lower Hoopa
Choose a numbered area on the map or a name in the list to see its people, sources, and place in the stories.
Reading the plate
An outline is not a doorstep.
A patent fixes a historical land description. It usually cannot tell us where a family built its home or where a mining crew dug. The parcel overlay follows a modern cadastral grid and remains under historical-plat review; reconstructed half-parcels are more approximate still. The Kirkham boundary is a recorded mineral survey; the Clover Flat outlines are patent-location areas, not mapped pit edges.
The story links lead to historical fiction. The source links lead to the underlying record. Present ownership and access are not shown here.