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Augustus "Gus" and Sarah Chapman were among Chico's early leaders in the years it grew from a tiny farm village into one of Northern California's agricultural centers shipping products world-wide. Beginning with Gus Chapman's start as manager of the Bidwell & Co. general store, he became a major lumber dealer, real estate developer, and finally president of the State Prison Commission in charge of San Quentin and Folsom. Chico's Chapmans expl...

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Butte County mining camps and foothill farms were an active front in the California Indian wars. Using centuries-old tribal tactics, Butte Creeks, the Mountain Maidu tribelets' warriors, resisted settlers' seizures of their territories. Making a strategic shift, in 1857, they acquired bases in the neighboring Yahi's Deer Creek Canyon. They merged with renegades and Yahi fighters, called Mill Creeks, whose raids had terrified Maidu and Tehama C...