The Stanley N. Forbes map, published in 1886. I would like to thanks Richard “Rob” Roberts, known through the Ferndale Museum and Ann Roberts (his wife), not to mention his exhaustive work republishing the Seth Kinman material, for sharing this with us. The 1880s were a mystery period to me, mapwise. This fills in a lot of gaps!
Find any general map-use guidelines you might need from this previous post. Also, as in all these map series i will put up, the areas overlap as they travel upstream, then back to the King Range coastline. Click and enlarge for detail, or use your control/+ function to go in until the pixels become annoying.
Looks like Cooskie Mountain used to be named Mattole Peak!
Yes, it’s labeled that way in several of these early maps. But i do think Forbes got a little mixed up here, because he shows a Chaparral Mtn. a bit to the east of his Mattole Peak… and it’s taller, at over 3000′. He seems to have located Mattole Peak, a.k.a. Cooskie, all right, roughly in Sec. 27 (at least in sync with the other maps here), but in reality nothing in the area comes near it in height. The only Chaparral anything in the area is just to the southwest of Mattole-Cooskie, and called “Little Chaparral” or sometimes “Little Cooskie.”