Editing Tehama County, California (section)

==History==
Tehama County was formed from parts of [[Butte County, California|Butte]], [[Colusa County, California|Colusa]], and [[Shasta County, California|Shasta]] Counties in 1856.

The first permanent non-indigenous settlers in the area that is now Tehama County were Robert Hasty Thomes, Albert Gallatin Toomes, [[William Chard|William George Chard]], and Job Francis Dye. The four men were each given land grants by the government of Mexico in 1844. Thomes received [[Rancho Saucos]], Toomes received [[Rancho Rio de los Molinos]], Chard received [[Rancho Las Flores]], and Dye received [[Rancho Primer Cañon o Rio de Los Berrendos]]. Later in the same year [[Josiah Belden]] received [[Rancho Barranca Colorado]].<ref>E. J. Lewis ,1891,''Tehama County History:A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California'', Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago</ref>

Famous early figures include [[Kit Carson]], who took part in a fight that gave name to Bloody Island and Battle Creek, [[Jedediah Smith]], [[John C. Fremont]], and [[William B. Ide]], the first and only president of the [[California Republic]].

The history of Tehama County includes the January 1886 relocation of Red Bluff's Chinese population, followed by the August 1886 torching of Red Bluff's Chinatown by alleged arsonists.<ref>{{cite book
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_xr2kLmUI4YC&q=red+bluff
| title = Hostility and Conflict
| work = Asian American studies : a reader
| author = Chan, Sucheng | access-date = October 10, 2015 |editor1=Wu, Jean |editor2=Song, Min | year = 2000
| isbn = 0-8135-2726-0
| publisher = [[Rutgers University Press]]
| page=53
}} Via [[Google Books]]</ref> The January 29, 1886, edition of ''The Daily Alta'' detailed 'The Anti-Coolie Move' and confirms that a secret anti-Chinese meeting was convened in the town of Tehama, and an organization established to relocate the estimated 2,000 Chinese in and around Vina. Secret daily anti-Chinese caucuses in Red Bluff were also held.<ref>{{cite news
| title       = THE ANTI-COOLIE MOVE. Tehama Taking a Hand—Chinese Leaving Sacramento.
| url         = http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DAC18860129.2.54#
| newspaper   = [[Daily Alta California]]
| location    = [[San Francisco, California]]
| date        = January 29, 1886
| page        = 5, column 4
| access-date  = October 10, 2015
}} Volume 40, Number 13304. Via [[California Digital Newspaper Collection]] of the [[University of California at Riverside]]</ref>
[[File:Grammar_and_High_School_at_Red_Bluff_Tehama_County.jpg|thumb|School at [[Red Bluff, California|Red Bluff]], 1902]]