Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 159

2) (if 4 It'I 3L I i Hit? Ul 1 Wli: i i rrr i-T" a3' -i?" Illustration from TIM Qutst tor Oual-A-Wi-Loo" Crescent-shape bay gave name to Crescent City and furnished picturesque scene for early-day artists once the. town blossomed Humboldt Bay Was Reluctant in Revealing Its Secrets UMBOLDT County, with its fascinating Humboldt Bay that A. C. Tibbetts and Harry L. Neall.

We wish we knew more about them, and there will be others who will entertains similar desire. XL the Indians called the parting remarks being that the home was not conducive to the happiness of Skipper, 8-year-old son of Ronald and Jfancy Reagan. One newshawk reported Mrs. Reagan as saying that Calif ornians must get to having a young Qual-A-Wa-Loo, a had little enough attention from students of history, and for this HERE may be other pub- nn jsjtohejyleasmtjoj i lished works where you can less search by the United States for the lost harbor of Trinidad. "He was the leader of the expedition not only by the choice of his fellow adventurers, but also because he alone had a well-defined object in view and had a specified place to reach, JThis was to come -out on the ocean shore as nearly as possible to the point of north latitude that the old Spanish charts gave for the location of this elusive harbor of Trinidad "The Quest for Qual-A-Wa-Loo" will enrich any library with a concentration of books on California and Western Americana.

rnver tlie Holmes-BO0KT-Umpan 4 indnhe diaries and words of such men as Jedediah Smith, Peter Skene Oden, Josiah Gregg governor and a child as young as Skipper in the Governor's home. Skipper -was born May 20, 1958. He was 8 years old when taken to the Mansion to live last January. Helen Pardee, the first child to live in the Mansion, was a September baby. She, too, was 8 when her parents toolrher to theelTGoVer nor's Mansion, but by actual count she was a few months younger -than the present Skipper.

and even Ewing Young, but we are definitely hard-put to recall a nar-. rative by Lewis Keysar Wood such as published in "The Quest for Qual-A-Wa-Loo." This Kentucky gentleman, whenlie came to California in 1849 and settled at San Jose. In October of that year he was mining the north fork of the Trinity River in partnership with Thomas Sebring. "Among the many tales that Bit of Rebuttal A NYONE desiring to stay in the good graces of Helen of 0 a 1 a republishing "The Quest for Qual-A-Wa-Loo," one of the most concise and interesting historical works on that last section of the continental United States to yield its secrets to the white man. The enthusiasm is increased -wheirwe note that thirls the first venture of the Holmes company into book publishing sin the death of Harold C.

Holmes, dean of antiquarian book dealers and chief of the Oakland firm for nearly three-quarters of a century. The firm continues under the guidance of Robert Keyston, a son-in-law of the late Mr. Holmes. With endpaper map and 14 full-pa illustrations, the 190-page book is bound in sturdy- buckram gold-stamped title and is realu ly an inexpensive volume for a work so importantr it includes material on Jedediah Smith, -Jo--siah Gregg, Ewing Young, Lewis KeysarWood, For Yosemite Fans have been preserved about-the days of '49 in California, there is none that will rank as more interesting and as of historically greater importance than the story by L. K.

Wood concerning the discovery of Humboldt Bay," it is pointed out by one unidentified compiler ramong the four who authored "The Quest landpdaughterszofztheTlatel GovZ George to the abandoned Governor's Mansion at Sacramento as a "firetrap and safety hazard." Governor Pardee and his family were the first to occupy the 187T home when it became the Governor's Mansion in l903r It was already 26 years old at the time" and stood in Sacramento's finest residential area. "It always was and "still remains a beautiful Victorian' AlRIVALrofa calendanon ur-desk in mid-April struck us as being a bit peculiar, especially when we opened it and found the first page featuring the month of August 1967, a month that -won't bow to us for some 90 days. A second -look -prompted -more -c a 1 examination, which revealed it to be a 17-monthFcalendar-that would serve through December 1968r and so quickly re- Covered from thetear that our two friends, Shirley Sargent and Hankr Johnston, had gone berserk in designing their Yosemite master- piece the Yosemite Calendar. The calendar we're talking about Continued on Page 26 "It should be kept in mind that Wood was actually unconscious of tfro fart that his recital is really -than Winship and others all the. dwelling.

As for age, our home two stories in one. First are the'ad- labor of four men who seem to be ventures of Wood and his associates. Second, there was Dr. Josiah Gregg, to them the unknown repre here in Oakland where we continue to reside is older than the abused Governor's Mansion," says Helen Pardee. the forgotten quartet among book compilers of this century.

The book was originally published in 1943 and has been long out of print. The four compilers are Clarence sentative of the government at Nevertheless, the Sacramento mansion now stands empty, one of Washington, who was to see the end of a long and heretofore fruit- rearsan, George D. Murray,.