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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Date: c.1920
Reference: 2
Extent and medium: 1 p.; clipping
Scope and content: 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.
Repository: Irish Capuchin Archives
Context: 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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the great redwood forests of the fishing , good hunting , medicinal ering mountains , tree-clad hills , er . Here nature has implanted abundant streams and springs . springs in fact , everything that to Mendocino . Along the Red- Redwood Empire , and mecca of beautiful drives , picturesque seen- spectacular coast , lovely valleys breezes of the seashore , and even the sportsman and pleasure seek- wood Highway near Willis is a through the prosperous lumbering ery . delightful camping sites , fine horse-drawn stagecoaches . Northland . Also a spawning station . Ukiah tions and wind sea "caves on the warmth of the Southland , the cool mail stages in the hardy days of The traveler soon realizes the lure that attracts so many plea- brigand and highwayman , robbed Tahne-Clear Lake-Ukiah highway . State Hospital and Fish Hatchery . Mendocino is a " gateway " to The most interesting phenomena large as the State of Delaware . rugged Mendocino coast - along Mendocino coast-rivals in scenic rock where Black Bart , famous Hopland is a gateway to Lake . glorious days of the early West and her grand forests of redwood Her climatic conditions include the charms the Cornish coast and the sure seekers to Mendocino's tow- and prosperous . goes to make life more pleasant and agricultural communities of the Shoreline drive . the snowcapped mountains of the are the extraordinary rock forma- and pine . Mendocino is truly rich with Indian descendants from the island of Japan . ' This route leads The Shoreline route along the lend a certain romance and color Mendocino . Fort Bragg , Westport lumbering industry and mercantile Mendocino county is twice as servatories is at Ukiah : also the and Rockport . chards , stock raising ranches , Gualala , Point Arena , Manchester , its vinevards . pear and prune or . interests . " county . is the western terminus of the Greenwood . Elk. Navarro . Albion , One of three International Oh-