Crescent City in Living Waves: Space, Time, People, and Minds on the Southern Cascadian Coast

This manuscript offers a synthetic scholarly history of Crescent City, California — seat of Del Norte County on the north- ernmost developed strip of the California coast — where published accounts remain fragmentary or era-bound (Huntsinger et al., 2014; Norton, 1979b). The narrative reads the town as an emergent nested system: Tolowa Dee-ni’ villages on the Smith River estuary; European contact...