Motorists zipping north on Interstate 5 pass through Siskiyou County, over the Siskiyou Summit, at an elevation of 4,310 feet, and cruise into Oregon, going at least 55 mph. Few realize that they are traveling over much of the original Siskiyou Trail, which once extended from Fort Vancouver and the Hudson’s Bay Company headquarters south to the San Francisco Bay Area. The trail followed beaten footpaths tromped by generations of Native Americans. In 1834, Ewing Young herded [...]
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