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According to a legend, J. C. Brown was a British prospector who discovered a lost underground city beneath Mount Shasta in 1904. [12] Brown had been hired by the Lord Cowdray Mining Company of England to prospect for gold and discovered a cave which sloped downward for 11 miles (18 km).
American Indian Myths and Legends. Pantheon Books, New York. (Retelling of a narrative from Gifford and Block 1930, pp. 356–357.) Ferrand, Livingston. 1910. "Shasta and Athapascan Myths from Oregon". Edited by Leo J. Frachtenberg. Journal of American Folklore 28:207-242. (15 Shasta myths, including Theft of Fire and Loon Woman, collected in ...
Mount Shasta's west face as seen from Hidden Valley high on the mountain. The west face gulley is an alternate climbing route to the summit. Mount Shasta can release volcanic ash, pyroclastic flows or dacite and andesite lava. Its deposits can be detected under nearby small towns. Mount Shasta has an explosive, eruptive history.
Mysterious disappearances, a bizarre death, and supernatural encounters at Northern California's Mount Shasta in Shasta-Trinity National Forest are linked to the Karuk Indian legend of the "Big People" or Lemurians, a race of super humans from the destroyed city of Lemuria who now live above the tree line. These dark forces of theirs might have ...
Llao was the spirit of the underworld who lived beneath Mount Mazama. Skell was the spirit of the sky "above-world". In the beginning, the stories say that Llao was able to pass through a hole and climb to the top of Mount Mazama where he could almost touch the stars where Skell lived.
Black Butte (formerly Wintoon Butte, Cone Mountain, Sugar Loaf and Muir's Peak [5]) is a cluster of overlapping dacite lava domes in a butte, [2] a satellite cone of Mount Shasta. [6] It is located directly adjacent to the northbound lanes of Interstate 5 at milepost 742 between the cities of Mount Shasta and Weed, California. The I-5 freeway ...
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Mount Shasta is located at 41°18'52" North, 122°18'41" West (41.314542, -122.311510), [10] along Interstate 5 south of Weed and north of Dunsmuir, California. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 3.8 square miles (9.8 km 2 ), of which 3.8 square miles (9.8 km 2 ) is land and only 0.10% of it is covered ...