A great dam builder, Crowe finished Hoover Dam a year ahead of schedule at a $10.4 million dollar profit on a $54 million dollar contract. He also built Parker and Shasta and other lesser dams. This
Shasta grew rapidly to be the "Queen City of the Northern Mines" after news of a second California gold strike reached the ears of fevered and footloose forty-niners. Miners swarmed into what became S
Pierson B. Reading settled on a large land grant in Shasta County in the 1840s, planting California’s first cotton and northern California’s first grapevines on his Rancho Buena Ventura, which include
