A Scottish Syndicate in the Redwoods [Humboldt County]
Georgie Press, 2015. Trade Paperback. 184 pages. The first modern account of the money and fraud behind the large timber holdings in Humboldt County, California. In the 1870s and 1880s, corrupt land agents backed by Edinburgh investors paid sailors and other itinerant travelers to file claims for timberland and then.....