TOMHEAD MOUNTAIN
Tehama County - Trinity National Forest
October 5, 1916: "Wilson Slater and wife have returned from the top of Tom Head mountain where they have been stationed during the summer, Mr. Slater being the lookout at that point for the National Forest service. It has been a good summer for them from the standpoint of health, as both came down in the pink of condition. Mrs. Slater gained twenty-five pounds in flesh and is thoroughly converted to life on top of a mountain--in the summer time. Its different in the winter. For several days before they came down the weather was so cold that ice froze every night.
Slater would recommend Tom Head as the proper place for a lazy man to hunt deer. He declares that he has sat on a rock and noted seventeen deer in one band." (Red Bluff Daily News)
Slater would recommend Tom Head as the proper place for a lazy man to hunt deer. He declares that he has sat on a rock and noted seventeen deer in one band." (Red Bluff Daily News)
August 3, 1920: "Adventures of a Lone Lookout. Miss Abbie Bromlee, Tomhead lookout, Trinity, while watching for fires the other day discovered a huge mountain lion within a stone's throw of her cabin. She reached for her six-shooter but before she could use it the lion disappeared in the brush. It is believed that the animal was one of three which had killed and devoured a colt the night before. Dogs were placed upon the trail of the lion but it had not up to this time been captured." (California District News Letter)
August 8, 1920: "Miss Abbie Brownlee, one of the lookouts of the Trinity National Forest, whose business is to keep keen watch for fire and give alarm to the fire fighters in case fire breaks out in the forest, had an exciting experience with a huge mountain lion recently, according to the National Forest Service, here.
Sitting at her window at Tomhead Lookout, which has a commanding position on the edge of the Sacramento valley, Miss Brownlee observed a huge mountain lion within a stone's throw of the tower. She reached for her pistol, but before it could be secured the animal bounded off into the brush. According to the Forestry Service, the lion was one of three which the night before had killed and devoured a young horse. Hunters and dogs were placed upon the trail of the animals, but up to last reports efforts to capture and kill them have been unsuccessful." (San Francisco Chronicle)
Sitting at her window at Tomhead Lookout, which has a commanding position on the edge of the Sacramento valley, Miss Brownlee observed a huge mountain lion within a stone's throw of the tower. She reached for her pistol, but before it could be secured the animal bounded off into the brush. According to the Forestry Service, the lion was one of three which the night before had killed and devoured a young horse. Hunters and dogs were placed upon the trail of the animals, but up to last reports efforts to capture and kill them have been unsuccessful." (San Francisco Chronicle)
June 11, 1933: "G. H. McCausland went on duty as lookout on Tomhead mountain, June 1." (The Searchlight)
November 30, 1946: "Lee Braden became Forest Lookout on Tomhead Mt. in the Yolla district in 1932 where he served until 1942. In 1942 he was appointed fireman at Saddle Camp, a horse patrol unit in the inaccessible Yolla Bolly Primitive Area. His wife, Mrs. Dolly Braden, took over the duties of Tomhead in 1942 and continued during the war years' manpower shortage." (Blue Lake Advocate)
October 21, 1960: "A San Francisco man missing since Sunday has been found in good condition in the Yolla Bolly wilderness area west of here.
Calvin Moore, 40, was traced Thursday to the bottom of Cottonwood Creek Canyon when smoke from his campfire was spotted from Tom Head Peak fire lookout." (Eureka Humboldt Standard)