By Julie Clark. The impenetrable coast of Humboldt County has been a historic navigational conundrum for sea captains since the 16th century. The Humboldt bar crossing, the lack of safe harbors, the storms, the unpredictable seas, and the rocky shores caused tragic shipwrecks, drownings, and maritime disasters. Beginning in 1850, the Department of the Treasury funded the construction of eleven lighthouses in California, including the Humboldt Harbor Lighthouse. Others were built as the population increased, causing a reliance on passenger schooners and freight vessels. Read their story in this book!

Author Julie Clark works for the Bureau of Land Management as a park ranger and is also the author of Falk: Company Lumber Town of the American West.