Terminus Reservoir Geology, Paleontology, Flora & Fauna, Archeology, History

GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY

1. Geological information is based upon the following papers:

a. Chesterman, Charles W., Contact Metamorphic Rocks of the Twin Lakes Region, Fresno County, California, California Journal of Mines and Geology, Vol. 38, 1942, pp. 243-281.

b. Durrell, Cordell, Metamorphism in the Southern Sierra Nevada Northeast of Visalia, California, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences, University of California, Vol. 25, No. 1, 1940, 117 pp.

c. Jenkins, W. O., Tungsten Deposits Northeast of Visalia, California, California Journal of Mines and Geology, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 169-182.

d. McDonald, G. A., Geology of the Western Sierra Nevada between the Kings River and San Joaquin River, California, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences, University of California, Vol. 26, No. 2, 1941, pp. 215-286.

e. Mayo, Evans B., Structure Plan of the Southern Sierra Nevada, California, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Vol. 58, No. 6, 1947, pp. 495-504.

f. Various unpublished reports on geologic studies made by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District.

Paleontology

2. Durrell, Cordell, Geology of the Sierra Nevada Northeast of Visalia, Tulare County, California, California Journal of Mines and Geology, Vol. 39, No. 2, 1943, p. 159.

FLORA AND FAUNA

3. Descriptions of flora and fauna are based upon the following publications:

a. Brown, Vinson, The California Wildlife Region, Naturegraph Company, San Martin, California, 1957.

b. Burt, William H. and Richard P. Grossenheider, A Field Guide to the Mammals, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1952.

c. Peterson, Roger T., A Field Guide to Western Birds, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1941.

NATIVE OCCUPATION OF THE TERMINUS RESERVOIR REGION

Historical Sketch

4. Cook, S. F., The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California, University of California Anthropological Records, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1955, p. 46.

5. Hoover, M. B. and H. E., and E. G. Rensch, Historic Spots in California, Stanford University Press, 1948, p. 190.

6. Kroeber, A. L., Handbook of the Indians of California, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin No. 78, Smithsonian Institution, 1925, p. 586.

Linguistic and Cultural Boundaries

7. Ibid, plate 47, opp. p. 526.

8. Seven main language families are recognized for California: Athabascan, Algonkian, Yukian, Lutuamian, Hokan, Penutian, and Uto-Aztekan (sometimes called Shoshonean).

Pattern of Occupation — Primary Foods

9. Pendergast, D. M. and C. W. Meighan, The Greasy Creek Site, Tulare County, California, Annual Report, Archeological Survey, University of California at Los Angeles, 1959, p. 1.

The Pictographs

10. Heizer, R. F. and M. A. Baumhoff, Prehistoric Rock Art of Nevada and Eastern California, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1962.

11. Gayton, A. H., Yokuts and Western Mono Ethnography, I: Tulare Lake, Southern Valley, and Central Foothill Yokuts, Anthropological Records 10:1, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1948, p. 58.

12. Ibid., p. 113.

Summary of Excavations: Greasy Creek Site

13. Driver, H. E., Culture Element Distribution, VI: Southern Sierra Nevada, Anthropological Records 1:2, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1937, p. 99.

14. Pendergast and Meighan, op. cit., p. 2.

15. Pendergast and Meighan, op. cit., p. 4.

16. Elsasser, A. B., Indians of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Sequoia National History Association, Three Rivers, Calif., 1962, p. 24.

Summary of Excavations: Slick Rock Village Site

17. Latta, F. F., Handbook of Yokuts Indians, Kern County Museum, Bakersfield, Calif., 1949, p. 10.

18. Von Werlhof, J. C., Aboriginal Trails of the Kaweah Basin, Report submitted to the National Park Service, San Francisco, 1961, p. 1.

Summary of Excavations: Cobble Lodge Site

19. Von Werlhof, J. C., Archeological Investigations at Tul-145 (Cobble Lodge), Report submitted to the National Park Service, San Francisco, 1961, p. 10.

20. Ibid., p. 2.

21. Ibid., p. 9.

22. Von Werlhof, J. C., Six Chert Knives from Tulare County, California, University of California Archeological Survey Report No. 50, 1960.

23. Driver, op. cit., p. 68.

24. Von Werlhof, J. C., Archeological Investigations of Tul-145, p. 6.

25. Ibid, p. 1.

26. Driver, op. cit., p. 99.

SPANISH EXPLORATION OF THE KAWEAH RIVER BASIN

27. Mitchell, Annie R., King of the Tulares, Presses of the Visalia Times-Delta, 1941, p. 11.

28. Ibid., p. 15.

29. Ibid., pp. 24-25.

30. Cook, S. F., Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California (Central Valley, 1800-1820), Anthropological Records 16:6, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1960, p. 244.

31. Mitchell, A. R., op. cit., p. 23.

32. Cook, S. F., op. cit., p. 252.

33. Cook, S. F., op. cit., p. 288.

AMERICAN EXPLORATION AND SETTLEMENT

34. Visalia Times-Delta, Centennial Edition, 25 June 1959.

35. In an interview with Judge Walter Fry, local historian and first civilian commissioner of Sequoia National Park. Data furnished by Miss Annie Mitchell.

36. Chief Chappo was also known as "Hon-Ush."

37. The carving was destroyed by vandals.