repost for typos!
Also, re: old maps & Indian Wars, the Tule Lake OR area has Lava Tubes National Monument.
This is a truly weird and cool place. The ice caves, for instance, are fascinating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_Beds_National_Monument
…The monument lies on the northeast flank of the Medicine Lake Volcano, the largest volcano (total area covered) in the Cascade Range. The region in and around the monument is unique because it lies on the junction of the Sierra-Klamath, Cascade, and Great Basin physiographic provinces. In addition, the monument is geologically outstanding because of its great variety of “textbook” volcanic formations; i.e., lava tube caves, fumaroles, cinder cones, spatter cones, maars, and lava flows. Over 30 separate lava flows located in the park range in age from 2,000,000 years BP to 1,110 years BP..
..The lava tube collapse systems and lava outcrops support a great diversity of plant life, from an impressive variety of lichens and mosses to plants such as desert sweet (Chamaebatiaria millefolium) and the aromatic desert (purple) sage (Salvia dorrii carnosa). An impressive variety of fern species are present in cave entrances including the spreading wood fern (Dryopteris expansa) and the western swordfern (Polystichum munitum). These species are well outside of their normal range 90 – 125 miles away on the northern California coastline…
This is one reason why it’s so amazing, see pix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_tubes
And this is the other.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modoc_War
…The Modoc War was the last of the Indian Wars to occur in California or Oregon. Eadweard Muybridge photographed the early part of the campaign…
..Hostility continued until 1864, when the United States and the Klamath, Modoc, and Snake (Yahooskin band) tribes signed a treaty, establishing the Klamath Reservation. Under the terms of this treaty the Modoc, with Old Chief Schonchin as their leader, gave up their lands in the Lost River, Tule Lake and Lower Klamath Lake regions, and moved to the reservation in the Upper Klamath Valley…
The leader of the Modoc was called Captain Jack.
I swear, you just can’t make this stuff up.
PS–wikipedia gave me these amusing things on initial entry.
Information on mica, with a description of the crystal structure. It’s not the only thing that could adopt such a structure…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mica
I have no idea how his music sounds, but I bet Emberley would know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Ornstein