Bernita TicknerBernita Tickner, who descends from the region's first settlers, is a retired librarian and museum curator, a historian, lecturer, and news correspondent. Gail Fiorini-Jenner, author of Arcadia's Making of America volume Western Siskiyou County, is a eacher and awardwinning writer of Western history and fiction. Using an impressive compilation of photographs gathered from both public and private archives, they rekindle the embers of independence still glowing in the mythical State of Jefferson. Read More Read Less