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Shasta   /ʃˈæstə/   Listen
Shasta

noun
1.
A member of the Indian people of northern California and southern Oregon.
2.
A volcanic mountain peak in the Cascade Range in northern California (14,162 feet high).  Synonym: Mount Shasta.
3.
The Shastan language spoken by the Shasta.



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"Shasta" Quotes from Famous Books



... condors with unsated maws, Four lesser birds of prey, An eagle with undaunted eye From Shasta, far away; A score of birds from many seas, All purged of grime and blood, Keep truckling pace the fete to grace,— Mars' ...
— Pan and Aeolus: Poems • Charles Hamilton Musgrove

... After-Echo Dulciora Matins The Parting and the Coming Guest When Tulips Bloom Spring in the North Spring in the South How Spring Comes to Shasta Jim The First Bird o' Spring A Bunch of Trout-Flies A Noon-Song Turn o' the Tide Sierra Madre School Indian Summer Light between the Trees The Fall of the Leaves Three Alpine Sonnets A Snow-Song Roslin and Hawthornden The ...
— Songs Out of Doors • Henry Van Dyke

... the deep gorge is so narrow you can almost leap across it, the wild beasts prowl as if it were really night, and great owls beat their wings against the boughs of the dense wood in everlasting darkness. But high over gorge and wilderness, gleaming against the cold blue sky, towers Mount Shasta, the monarch of ...
— Shadows of Shasta • Joaquin Miller

... sitting on a glacial rock in the forest at the foot of Mount Shasta. A beautiful spot to rest and a glorious book of ...
— Evening Round Up - More Good Stuff Like Pep • William Crosbie Hunter

... neighborhood of Mount Shasta, in Northern California, have a strange legend which refers to the age ...
— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly

... rode three miles yesterday for a full view of Mount Shasta, but the summit was hidden by a dense fog, and I saw only one of its side-points called the crater; so all hope of seeing this lofty snow-peak is over, unless it should clear off and I see it by moonlight as I go out tonight. This long stage ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... the "Shasta"; it is the first book of theology of the Brahmins, written about fifteen hundred years before their "Veidam," and anterior to all ...
— Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary • Voltaire

... the eastern boundary of the state. It has a population of 7,629, the large majority of whom are engaged in mining. The mining district is all in the western end of the county, along the banks of the Klamath River and its tributaries, the Scott and Shasta Rivers. The Klamath runs through a deep canon; the Scott and Shasta Rivers, have pleasant open valleys, but the diggings along their banks are chiefly among the canons near the Klamath. Hydraulic and tunnel ...
— Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining • John S. Hittell

... May, 1896, I took a sky-scraping journey to the great states of Washington and Oregon. The climbing of Mt. Shasta and the Siskyo range by train presented sublime views that no language can even feebly describe. At the summits we were at least two miles in the air higher than the dome of the Massachusetts State House. As we climbed, I could ...
— The Gentleman from Everywhere • James Henry Foss



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