Identifier: historyofsonomac02greg (find matches)
Title: History of Sonoma County, California, with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county, who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present time
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Gregory, Thomas Jefferson. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Los Angeles, Cal., Historic record company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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hip under its forests, sur-rounded by Analy, Bodega, Mendocino and Ocean townships. Through itscenter flows the Russian river and along the shores of that stream grow thegroves of sequoia—the kingly plants of the vegetable kingdom. On paperand canvas have been faithfully portrayed these splendid trees, but one muststand at the base of the great vertical shaft springing into the air to trulysense the grandeur of that growth; must be within these rare groves wheresunshine falls through the tree-tops to first glow silvery on the leaves, thenfade away into soft twilight. Here must have been the retreats of the godsof the olden days, ere Pan and his elfin crew forsook the earth and eerie pipeswere heard no more in sylvan shade. But the forest temples remained. Foresttemple is not a term fitless or fanciful, for the clustered-columns and groinedarch of the noble gothic cathedral grew from the tree-trunk and spreadingbough of the woods. And later on in the reaches of time the Indian walked
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THE GIANT REDWOODS HISTORY OF SONOMA COUNTY 197 the sequoia groves as tenant in fee. How appropriate was the word-selectionwhen the inspired naturalist stood among the red columns and named themfor Sequoyah, the cultured Cherokee, who gave his red people an alphabet,and lifted their simple dialect to the dignity of a written language. The treemay fall, but the fame of the scholarly Indian whose name it bears will neverpass away. WHIRR OF THE MILL—THE DIRGE OF THE TREE. When the pathfinders in the plaza at Sonoma were lifting the Bear Flagto the California breeze, leagues of stately redwoods grew on the Coast range.They hung thickly on the slopes and crowded the vales—the park of the In-dian and the covert of the deer. They drew life from their mother-stream,the green-shored Russian river, and caught in their leafy deeps the silveryechoes of her murmuring flow. But the saw followed the flag, and many ofthe grand groves are gone. The whirring song of the mill is the dirge of thetree

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