Editing Concow, California (section)

===Discovery===
Aside from governance, starting in 1828, northern trappers including [[Jedediah Smith]], [[Michel Laframboise]], and [[John Work (fur-trader)|John Work]] first made contact with the Concow region Maidu.<ref name="maidu.com">History of the ConCow  Maidu, last accessed 9/27/2011. {{cite web |url=http://www.maidu.com/maiduculture/firstcontactto1863.html |title=History |access-date=2011-09-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714022513/http://www.maidu.com/maiduculture/firstcontactto1863.html |archive-date=2011-07-14 }}</ref> In 1851 the [[California Trail#Beckwourth Trail|Beckwourth Trail]] established the first transportation route to the Concow region. The route did not pass directly through the present day Concow, the trail followed a series of ridgetops 10 miles to the East.

Soon began death from diseases, such as [[pneumonia]]<ref name="yankeehillhistory.com">{{Cite web |url=http://yankeehillhistory.com/newsApr07.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-02-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722150220/http://yankeehillhistory.com/newsApr07.pdf |archive-date=2012-07-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and [[malaria]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/jstor-4575240/4575240#page/n1/mode/2up|title = Occurrence of Malaria and Anopheline Mosquitoes in Northern California|date = 18 July 1919|publisher = Public Health Reports}}</ref> from which the Maidu have no natural immunity.