Numbered references are to the tour section of the book.
In the course of its unusual history, the name of this tiny town on its mesa between wooded hills has variously been recorded as Summit, Meeker's, Howards Summit, Howards Station, Howards and, finally, Occidental. At one point, in the latter part of the century, it was not one, but two towns. He was in fact a Danish sailor named Christopher Thomassen Folkmann, born in 1823 on the island of Bornholm on the Baltic Sea. Unable to resist the lure of California's recently-discovered goldfields, Folkmann and nine other sailors jumped ship, stole a small boat and headed north, followed closely by pursuing military police. The fugitives abandoned the boat in Richardson Bay and eight of the men were apprehended almost immediately.