File:Workmen-Felling-the-First-Mammoth-Tree-1853.jpg
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English: In 1853, Captain Hanford felled the "Discovery Tree," a giant sequoia in Calaveras Grove, for public exhibition. A group of five men spent 22 days boring through the tree with two inch-pump augers. |
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| Source | Kruska, Dennis G. (1985). Sierra Nevada Big Trees: History of the Exhibitions, 1850-1903: Los Angeles, California: Dawson's Book Shop. |
| Author | Unknown author |
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| current | 21:42, 29 January 2023 | | 4,000 × 3,244 (8.92 MB) | Guywelch2000 | Uploaded a work by Unknown from Kruska, Dennis G. (1985). Sierra Nevada Big Trees: History of the Exhibitions, 1850-1903: Los Angeles, California: Dawson's Book Shop. with UploadWizard |
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