This goes under of not quite Dumpster Dive Tales While searching through archives I spotted this file. it is Lassen County District Docket of 1865. In 1869, it surfaced at a Reno, Nevada yard sale The person who bought it, knew Eslie Cann, who at the time worked at the Nevada Historical Society. Eslie alerted me, and she passed on small docket me for safe keeping. It should be noted that the voters of California in 1879, adopted a new state constitution. The District Court system was replaced with the Superior Court system we have today. Anyhow, the moral story is one never knows how records were dispersed and when they may appear again.

As a researcher court docket books and court minute books, while they are a relic past, can provide much information. This especially true when the court file does not exist, as it has been transferred to another county due to other circumstances. Whether the Lassen County Superior Court when it moved into its current facility retained these records I do not know.

Tim