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Winters were bearable along the river, and the Wintu had little reason to travel very high into the mountains, except to pass through on trading expeditions to the coast or Central Valley. What need had a Wintu for gold? Would gold keep a grizzly from attacking? (Grizzlies were still here in those days.) In the end, of course, gold destroyed the Wintu completely, as the people who came to the area in the 19th century wanted the gold and the Wintu were in the way.

FROM TRAPPERS AND GOLD DIGGERS TO HOMESTEADERS AND LOGGERS

Although Jedediah Smith, and possibly other trappers before him, may have visited the area, Major Pierson B. Reading received the credit for naming the Trinity River in 1845. Actually, the river was named by mistake, as Reading thought the river emptied into the Pacific Ocean at Trinidad Bay, naming the river Trinity (the English translation of the Spanish Trinidad). Four years later, two miners who were searching for a way to the ocean discovered that the river flowed into the Klamath River, not the ocean.