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Re: Yuba Gap
Author: Jim Peeker
Date: 05-09-2021 - 15:05

Californian Wrote:
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> Geography Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Who was Yuba and why was the gap/pass/notch
> named
> > after him?
> >
>
> The name Yuba does not honor a person.
>
> The Yuba River was named Yubu by John Sutter
> (builder of Sutter's Fort), after the Maidu
> village at the confluence of the Feather and Yuba
> Rivers (early spellings: Yubu, Yupu, and Jubu).
>
> reference: Gudde, Erwin. 1969. California Place
> Names. University of California Press.

I was once in Yuba City at midnight. It was at least 200 degrees outside then and I didn't see any wire for the SN!

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