I have addressed this issue before, but there  was an amusing editorial comment that appeared in the Lassen Advocate of December 23, 1914. One key background of information to make sense, in the fall of 1914, a Russian colony of immigrants of some fifty families had located on the eastern portion of the Madeline Plains.

Herewith: “It would seem that the ‘pesky jack-rabbit” is doing someone good in the world after all. The Russians in the northern part of this county are using the flesh for food, and caps are made of the fur. Recently a number of Reno sportsmen killed 518 rabbits and these were given to poor families in Reno for food.”

Tim