Costco to Host Book Signing for Early Logging in Northeastern California Author

CHICO, Calif. - Nov. 21, 2014 - PRLog -- In the late 1800s, the green gold of California’s inland timber belt included the long-coned sugar pine and cinnamon-dusted ponderosa pine of Big Chico Creek Canyon.

Tucked into the steep terrain of present-day Butte and Tehama Counties, the bustling West Branch Mill logging operations moved timber from the foothills east of Chico to waiting markets in Sacramento, Marysville and San Francisco.

Local author Andy Mark recounts the lesser-known history of the West Branch Mill, recalling a time when resident physician Newton T. Enloe treated the daring men who faced daily peril, John Bidwell’s bumpy and sometimes treacherous Humboldt Wagon Road was essentially the only route to town and Big Chico Creek was lined with an elevated flume running lumber and ambulance rafts.

Join the Author for a Book Signing!

Where:  Costco

2100 Dr. Martin Luther King Pkwy., Chico, CA 95928

When:  Saturday, December 6th, 2014; 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through The History Press at 866-457-5971 or www.historypress.net

The History Press, based in Charleston, South Carolina, brings a new way of thinking to history publishing by producing regional history titles by excellent historians and striving to make these books available to a wide audience.

The West Branch Mill of the Sierra Lumber Company

By Andy Mark

128 pages/ softcover

Available: October  2012