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About the Author
Dave Brown is a fifth generation northern Californian who has worked as a counselor and care manager, primarily with senior citizens, since 1973. Taught by his father, Arch Brown, an automotive industry historian and freelance writer, to follow the links between past and present, he finds history research to be one of the best means to understand the present.
The author joined a car trip led by Florence Allen Norby – a great aunt by marriage - in the La Porte area when he was nine-years old, thereby kindling a life-long interest in the region. Norby’s deep knowledge of that section’s history made it come alive with stories about each place as it was visited. Through the years since, the author has visited and learned to understand the experiences of earlier generations in the northern Sierra Nevada.
A long time resident of Butte County and past president of Butte County Historical Society and ANCHR, Dave has also been a property owner at Meadow Valley since 1978. The author wishes to share his knowledge of Oroville Quincy Ridge Route with others, including others with a bond to this beautiful and historically rich country.
