McCloud

Under the Waves

The site on the McCloud where Stone and his crew spawned salmon and trout for so many years is now hundreds of feet beneath Lake Shasta, at approximately the site where this photo was taken.

Photo by Anders Halverson

McCloud River

A view of the McCloud as it probably appeared when Stone and his crew first arrived.

National Archives 22-FFB-518

Fish Delivery

The U.S. Fish Commission freely delivered fish to government as well as private groups and individuals. The Commission would send a telegraph a few days before they arrived, and the recipients would wait at the train station to pick up the fish and stock them into local rivers or ponds.

National Archives 22-FFB-1000

Wintu

A group of Wintu taken about 1882.

National Archives 22-FFB-527

Wintu

A portrait of some Wintu Indians on the McCloud River in 1882.

National Archives FFB-486

Fish Car Interior

Inside one of the U.S. Fish Commission's fish cars--specially designed railroad cars in which fish and their attendants could travel around the country.

National Archives FFB-384

Crossing the McCloud

Horsemen cross the McCloud River near the salmon station, probably around 1882.

National Archives 22-FFB-328

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