Shelton, William

Author William Shelton, a sixth-generation logger and collector of Tehama, Butte, and Lassen County history, has chronicled this region for over 40 years in such publications as Diggins, Tales of Paradise Ridge, and Nataqua News. Related to no less than 20 pioneer families, he conducted hundreds of oral interviews of its longtime residents. He has chosen images from his massive photographic archive, gathered since high school, to carry the reader over 153 years of Red Bluff history-from rare portraits of Yahi and Maidu Indian families to the modern town of today.