Library - The Mount Shasta Collection

The Mount Shasta Collection is the largest repository of information and documents about Mount Shasta. The collection consists of thousands of books, articles, manuscripts, photographs, maps, prints, and audiovisual materials about the Mount Shasta volcano and surrounding area. These materials are available at the College of the Siskiyous Library. As part of an ongoing project, documents from the collection will be made available here.

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Resources

Mount Shasta Companion: A comprehensive collection of Mount Shasta information online.

Mount Shasta: An Annotated Bibliography

Mount Shasta Collection Pamphlet File Topics (PDF)

Mount Shasta Fact Sheet. The Mount Shasta Fact Sheet is a 4-page compilation of brief facts and information about Mount Shasta, California and the surrounding region. The purpose of the Fact Sheet is to answer the questions about the mountain most commonly asked by tourists. The Fact Sheet is also meant to be a useful resource for those who provide tourist information.

• Mount Shasta Fact Sheet - 4 pages (PDF)
• Mount Shasta Fact Sheet with References - 34 pages (PDF)

Literature of Mount Shasta

• Joaquin Miller
• Mount Shasta (1881) (PDF)
• Proposal for an Indian Republic (1873) (PDF)
• Christmas Morn at Shasta (1900) (PDF)
• John Muir
• Legends (PDF)
• Poetry
• Mount Shasta by John Rollin Ridge (c.1854) (PDF)
• Mount Shasta by Joaquin Miller (1881) (PDF)
• Ode to Shasta Alpine Lodge by Chief Yola Wintu (1927) (PDF)
• The Snows of Shasta by Mary C. Bantz (1896) (PDF)
• Shasta Spring by Prof. Chas H. Allen (c189?) (PDF)

Mountaineering

• 19th Century
• History and Memories of Shasta Alpine Lodge by William Bridge Cooke (1986) (PDF)
• Shasta Alpine Lodge at Horse Camp: A Chronology (PDF)

Names of Mount Shasta

• Mount McLoughlin, Mount Shasta, and Mount Lassen... 1834-1879 (PDF)

National Park Proposals

• Proposal for an Indian Republic by Joaquin Miller (1873) (PDF)
• John Muir's Mount Shasta National Park proposal (1888) (PDF)
• National Park in Siskiyou and Shasta Counties (1888) (PDF)
• National Park Proposed (1888) (PDF)
• The Forest: Among the Siskiyou Forests (1889) (PDF)
• The Mount Shasta National Park Movement: Its Origin and Development (PDF)
• Sisson Promotion Association (1912) (PDF)

Science of Mount Shasta

• Introduction to the Geology of the Mount Shasta Region by Dr. William Hirt, 1995 (PDF)
• The Hard Winter of 1889-1890 by May H. Southern (PDF)

Links to Mount Shasta Resources

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