Deer, also, dwell here, and find food and shelter in the ceanothus tangles, with a multitude of smaller people.

Above this region of giants, the trees grow smaller until the utmost limit of the timber line is reached on the stormy mountain-slopes at a height of from ten to twelve thousand feet above the sea, where the Dwarf Pine is so lowly and hard beset by storms and heavy snow, it is pressed into flat tangles, over the tops of which we may easily walk.

Below the main forest belt the trees likewise diminish in size, frost and burning drought repressing and blasting alike.
The rose-purple zone along the base of the range comprehends nearly all the famous gold region of California.

And here it was that miners from every country under the sun assembled in a wild, torrent-like rush to seek their fortunes.

On the banks of every river, ravine, and gully they have left their marks.