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Greggwood Party Campsite, Susie Van Kirk

Susie Van Kirk Papers

On November 5, 1849 a group of seven men led by Dr. Josiah Gregg, a physician, author, and explorer sent by the federal government to find the lost harbor of Trinidad, left the mining camp at Rich Bar on the Trinity River. The Indians told them that eight days' travel would bring them to a "large and beautiful bay surrounded by fine and extensive prairie land (Humboldt Bay).

This report discusses the events of the Greggwood Party as well as various houses and other locations that were established.

Humboldt Bay Masterplan (Environmental Impact Report), Susie Van Kirk

Susie Van Kirk Papers

Descriptions of Indian sites on Humboldt Bay have not been attempted in this report. According to Loud (1918) there were 115 archaeological sites located in the Wiyot territory which roughly covered the lower Mad River, the lower Eel and fill of Humboldt Bay Approximately 70 of these sites were on or near the bay. Many of the important village sites have been lost to development. The clearings in the forest, streams, and bluffs above the tidelands were naturally chosen by white settlers just as they had been chosen by Indian people generations before.

Inventories of Wiyot sites in the area …

An Anthropological Expedition Of 1913, Or, Get It Through Your Head, Or, Yours For The Revolution : Correspondence Between A.L. Kroeber And L.L. Loud, July 12, 1913-October 31, 1913, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Llewellyn Lemont Loud, Robert Fleming Heizer

Books and Other Publications

Correspondence between A. L. Kroeber and L. L. Loud regarding archeology and ethnographic work around Humboldt Bay related to the Wiyot people. Photocopies of letters originally published at the Archaeological Research Facility, Department of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley in 1970.