Mendocino: Mecca of Sportsmen
A clipping titled ‘Mendocino Mecca of Sportsmen’, promoting Mendocino County, California, as an ideal destination for travellers, sportsmen, and pleasure seekers. The text highlights the county’s vast geographic diversity – noting it is twice the size of Delaware – and its varied climate, which ranges from coastal breezes to snowcapped mountains. It describes an abundance of natural attractions, including redwood forests, fine fishing, good hunting, medicinal springs, sea caves, and scenic drive
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- c.1920
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- 1 p.; clipping
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- A clipping titled ‘Mendocino Mecca of Sportsmen’, promoting Mendocino County, California, as an ideal destination for travellers, sportsmen, and pleasure seekers. The text highlights the county’s vast geographic diversity – noting it is twice the size of Delaware – and its varied climate, which ranges from coastal breezes to snowcapped mountains. It describes an abundance of natural attractions, including redwood forests, fine fishing, good hunting, medicinal springs, sea caves, and scenic drives like the Shoreline route, which it compares to the Cornish coast and Japan. Additionally, the article touches on local landmarks and history, mentioning the agricultural wealth of the region, the International Observatory at Ukiah, and the legendary highwayman Black Bart, who famously robbed mail stages near Willits.
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- Irish Capuchin Archives
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- Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of the Irish Capuchin Mission in the United States > Irish Capuchin Foundations in the United States > Mendocino County, California
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- Indian descendants from the glorious days of the early West lend a certain romance and color to Mendocino. Along the Redwood Highway near Willits is a rock where Black Bart, famous…
- The most interesting phenomena are the extraordinary rock formations and wind sea caves on the rugged Mendocino coast—along the Shoreline drive.
- One of three International Observatories is at Ukiah; also the State Hospital and Fish Hatchery. Also a spawning station. Ukiah is the western terminus of the Tahoe-Clear-Lake-Ukia…
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MENDOCINO MECCA OF SPORTSMEN Game Abounds in Varied Climate of the County Mendocino is a "gateway" to the great redwood forests of the Redwood Empire, and mecca of the sportsman and pleasure seeker. Here nature has implanted beautiful drives, picturesque scenery, delightful camping sites, fine fishing, good hunting, medicinal springs—in fact, everything that goes to make life more pleasant and prosperous. Mendocino county is twice as large as the State of Delaware. Her climatic conditions include the warmth of the Southland, the cool breezes of the seashore, and even the snowcapped mountains of the Northland. The traveler soon realizes the lure that attracts so many pleasure seekers to Mendocino's towering mountains, tree-clad hills, abundant streams and springs, spectacular coast, lovely valleys and her grand forests of redwood and pine. Indian descendants from the glorious days of the early West lend a certain romance and color to Mendocino. Along the Redwood Highway near Willits is a rock where Black Bart, famous brigand and highwayman, robbed mail stages in the hardy days of horse-drawn stagecoaches. The most interesting phenomena are the extraordinary rock formations and wind sea caves on the rugged Mendocino coast—along the Shoreline drive. One of three International Observatories is at Ukiah; also the State Hospital and Fish Hatchery. Also a spawning station. Ukiah is the western terminus of the Tahoe-Clear-Lake-Ukiah highway. The Shoreline route—along the Mendocino coast—rivals in scenic charms the Cornish coast and the island of Japan. This route leads through the prosperous lumbering and agricultural communities of Gualala, Point Arena, Manchester, Greenwood, Elk, Navarro, Albion, Mendocino, Fort Bragg, Westport and Rockport. Hopland is a gateway to Lake county. Mendocino is truly rich with its vineyards, pear and prune orchards, stock raising ranches, lumbering industry and mercantile interests.