On the Internet

California Council for the Humanities (website)

Camptonville.Com(website)

"California As I Saw It: First Person Narratives of California's Early Years 1849-1900" at the Library of Congress(website)

Yuba County, California, USGenWeb Project(website)

2003 Altares del Mundo Altar Show, Nevada City, CA (look for slide DSCN4197)(website)

"Bringing Water to the Mines: the hydraulic systems of the Sierra Nevada"(website)

Special Thanks

Leland Pauly
First and foremost
for unfailing enthusiasm and generosity

Acknowledgements

Selected Bibliography

Camptonville Town Brochure, Katie O'Hara-Kelly and Leland Pauly, Yuba Watershed Alliance, 2002

Our Deal Ancestry, 2nd ed., compiled by Linda E. Slater Nolan, privately published, Bend, Oregon

Delay, Peter J., History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, California, with Biographical Sketches, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, CA 1924

"California's Bantam Cock: The Journals of Charles E. De Long, 1854-1863," Quarterly of the California Historical Society, Vol. VIII, No. 3, September, 1929

Church, David C., When I Started I Didn't Know Where I Was Going, When I Got There I Didn't Know Where I Was: A Collection of My Life's Anecdotes, illustrated, composed, and published by David C. Church, 4th ed., January 2, 1998, A Workbench Production

Meek, William Bull, "Reminiscences," hand-copied notes, courtesy of Leland Pauly

Markley, Richard, Tahoe National Forest, "Recollections of the Tarweed Kid: A Collection of Stories and an Oral Interview with Frank W. Meggers, District Ranger, Camptonville, 1927-1945", Tahoe National Forest, 1993 (Available from TOPO)

Meals, Hank, Tahoe National Forest, "The Camptonville Connection: A Conversation with Leland Pauly," Tahoe National Forest, 1994, (available from TOPO)

Meals, Hank, and Stevens, Dennis, "Tailings and Time-Travel - The Plot 'Slickens': A History of Placer Mining Methods and Communities Along a Portion of the North Yuba River, 1848-1942, Tahoe National Forest, 1993 (Available from TOPO)

Praetzellis, Adrian, "Fallers, Sawyers, and Edgermen: An Archaeologist's View of Life and Work at the Cole and Nelson Sawmill, 1883-1889," U.S. Forest Service Heritage Resources Informational Series, No. 2, 1993

Shaffer, Caroline, "Camptonville and its Postmaster: A Half-Century of Changes," The Western Slopes Connection, Vol II, No. 14, August 2-15, 1977, pp. 1, 12-13.

"Camptonville Postmaster Has Retired," Rabbit Creek Journal, Vol. 7, Issue 45, November 20, 1984, p. 1

Cleveland, Acton M., "Notes," unpublished writings of Acton Cleveland, courtesy of Leland Pauly

Dreyer, Steve, "Judge Acton Cleveland to Retire; Court to Close," reprinted from the Appeal-Democrat, Marysville-Yuba City, California, in the official monthly newsletter of the "Judges, Marshals, and Constables Association", March 1977, pp. 1-3

Erwin G. Gudde, California Gold Camps: A Geographical and Historical Dictionary of Camps, Towns, and Localities Where Gold Was Found and Mined; Wayside Stations and Trading Centers, Edited by Elisabeth K. Gudde, University of California Press, 1975

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