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Shasta   /ʃˈæstə/   Listen
Shasta

noun
1.
A member of the Indian people of northern California and southern Oregon.
2.
A volcanic mountain peak in the Cascade Range in northern California (14,162 feet high).  Synonym: Mount Shasta.
3.
The Shastan language spoken by the Shasta.



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"Shasta" Quotes from Famous Books



... something unintelligible, but which bore some resemblance to the word "Shasta," and he made a motion toward his mouth and then threw his head back and imitated the ...
— Adrift in the Wilds - or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys • Edward S. Ellis

... misrepresented by Despatch, 401; no women present in British Columbia audiences, abusive "cards" in Victoria press, 402; husband objects to entertaining her, peculiar marriage conditions, stage ride southward, deep mud, bed-room next to bar-room, at Yreka, 403; Mt. Shasta, at Chico, Marysville, etc., discusses Holland Social Evil Bill in San Francisco, 404; at Mayfield, banquet at Grand Hotel, San Francisco, Chronicle report, lect. arranged by L. de F. Gordon, at Nevada City, 405; Virginia ...
— The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) • Ida Husted Harper

... neighborhood of Mount Shasta, in Northern California, have a strange legend which refers to the age of ...
— Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel • Ignatius Donnelly

... again should smite her She would not slack her song. Nay, she would shriek and rally— 'Frisco would ten times rise! Not till her last tower crumbles, Not till her last rose dies, Not till the coast sinks seaward, Not till the cold tides beat Over the high white Shasta, 'Frisco will ...
— General William Booth enters into Heaven and other Poems • Vachel Lindsay

... great ability. For many years women have been eligible to school offices in California and there is not a county in the State where women have not filled positions as trustees or been elected to the office of county superintendent.[497] Mrs. Coleman has been reelected to that office in Shasta county, and Mrs. E. W. Sullivan in Mono county has served for ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various

... is remarkable. Our Geysers are the finest, the bitterest, the smokiest, the noisiest, the most infernal in the world; and as for mountains, our Shasta Bute would knock your Mount Hecla into a ...
— The Land of Thor • J. Ross Browne

... said Low imperturbably; "but I wanted to tell you, as we were speaking on that subject" (Nellie looked at her watch), "I've been offered the place of botanist and naturalist in Professor Grant's survey of Mount Shasta, and if I take it—why when I come ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte



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