Willow Creek History: Tales of Cow Camps, Shake Makers & Basket Weavers

by Marcia Freedman

It's the same Willow Creek that flows into Bass Lake and moves through five powerhouses generating twenty-seven kilowatts of electricity for California. It's the same Willow Creek that rises at eight thousand feet in the Sierra Forest, crashes through narrow granite canyons and meanders through serene mountain passes on its journey to its confluence with the San Joaquin River twenty-five miles below. Logging railroads have carried their loads alongside and over Willow Creek. Native tribes made their homes along its banks. Each year, thousands of people swim and boat and fish in its waters. In this history of Willow Creek, local author Marcia Penner Freedman shares the amazing story of these moving waters and the people whose lives have been touched by Willow Creek.

160 pages, Paperback

First published April 16, 2013

About the author

Marcia Freedman (Hebrew: מרשה פרידמן‎, born 17 May 1938) is an American-Israeli activist on behalf of peace, women's rights, and gay rights. In the early 1970s she helped create and lead the feminist movement in Israel. Freedman was the founding president of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom and a past president of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.

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Reviews

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked this odd little book up at a local garage sale, and read it while homebound with illness. It has some fascinating detail about Indians living in the area, as well as early white settlers. There are pictures and interviews with those who raised cattle in the area, too. However, the chapters about the hydro-electric plant would have been better served with some diagrams to help the reader understand the complex workings. Additionally, I would have liked to see a map somewhere in the book showing where this willow Creek area is in relation to the rest of the state of California.