1901 Stockman's Guide (Brand Book), Siskiyou County, California is a facsimile reprint of the original 1901 brand book published for Siskiyou County, California — a rare and highly distinctive document of the Northern California ranching and stockman community at the turn of the 20th century. Unlike statewide brand registries, this county-level volume offers an intimate and visually compelling record of a single ranching community, presenting each registered brand illustrated by a silhouette of a cattle or horse showing the exact location of the brand on the animal, accompanied by the owner's name, location, and the range where the animal runs. Horse brands are documented for towns and communities across the county including Yreka, Fort Jones, Oro Fino, Etna, Bogus, Little Shasta, Klamathon, and others, capturing the full geographic spread of Siskiyou County's livestock operations from the Klamath River country to the Scott Valley. The volume also includes an index of brands organized by owner's name, and an extract of California's Estray Law governing the taking up, confining, and claiming of stray livestock — providing important legal context for the stockmen of the era. This facsimile reprint is an essential resource for genealogists tracing Siskiyou County and Northern California ranching families, historians researching the range livestock industry and rural community life of the California-Oregon border region, and collectors of California and Western Americana. Brand books of this kind — illustrated, county-specific, and combining brand registries with legal and indexing material — are among the rarest categories of Western historical documents, seldom found outside of state and county archives. This reprint makes a unique and important piece of Northern California ranching history accessible to researchers and collectors alike. 5.5" x 8.5". 78 pages. Black and White.
