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    Ben Kelsey. Courtesy of Humboldt State University Library, Humboldt County Collection.
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    Nancy Kelsey. Courtesy of Humboldt State University Library, Humboldt County Collection.
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    Lewis Keysor (L.K.) Wood. Courtesy of Humboldt State University Library, Humboldt County Collection.
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    Clarissa Hanna Wood, wife of L.K. Wood. Courtesy of Humboldt State University Library, Humboldt County Collection.
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    Northwest side of Arcata Plaza, Odd Fellows celebration, April 26, 1870; the stables at the far right occupies the site of Ben and Nancy Kelsey’s erstwhile “mansion.” Courtesy of Humboldt State University Library, Humboldt County Collection.
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    Ki-we-lat-tah, or “Coonskin,” redrawn from a painting by Stephen William Shaw. From “The Argonauts of ‘Forty-Nine’” by David Rohrer Leeper
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    1) Site of Charles Stone & Andy Kelsey’s Ranch (Kelseyville). Route of the Kelsey-Smith raid: 2) Yountville; 3) Santa Rosa; 4) Sonoma; 5) Napa. 6) ‘U.S.S. Savannah’ & Calif. Supreme Court (San Francisco). 7) Route of ‘Jacob M. Ryerson’ to Humboldt Bay.
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    Map of Arcata holdings of many of the members of the Union Company, several of which were members of the murderous “Sonoma Gang.” After a map by Susie Baker Fountain.