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The Intriguing History Of The Enormous Sequoia Tree Known As Mark Twain, Which Was Felled In 1891

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The forest contains some of the world’s biggest and largest trees and is located in what is now known as Kings Canyon National Park (east of Fresno, California). The well-known Big Stump can be found here. This massive stump, which has a diameter of 52 feet, once held an enormous sequoia tree nicknamed “Mark Twain,” after the actual writer Mark Twain visited the stump and was immediately fascinated by its enormous size and was inspired to write about it.

The big stump of the Mark Twain Sequoia Tree Photo by American Museum of Natural History
The falling of the Mark Twain tree Photo by American Museum of Natural History

As word spread about these massive trees of the west (California) in the late 1800s, many people simply did not believe the stories that were going around the country. Even for those who chose to travel across the country to see the extraordinary Sequoia National Park for themselves, the journey was simply too difficult at the time. It now takes at least a 2-mile hike to reach the Big Stump (about an hour hike). It was decided in 1891 to “sacrifice” the massive tree by cutting it down.

This was done so that segments of the Mark Twain tree could be displayed in museums such as the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Natural History Museum in London.

Picture of lumbermen chopping down the great Mark Twain Photo by Charles C. Curtis

Due to the thickness of the tree, it took four lumbermen, Bill Mills and S.D. Phips, a man named Barney, and John Lukey, 13 days to cut it down. It was common for nearby mills to take weeks to cut down these massive sequoia trees, owing to the tools used, which were elongated flimsy hand saws.

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  1. Elżbieta Lendzion says

    January 30, 2023 at 11:12 am

    brakuje słów;
    E.L.

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  2. NIAGARA Emmery says

    January 31, 2023 at 8:43 am

    That man would have to be almost 15ft tall for that tree in picture to be 52 ft in diameter

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  3. warren barnes says

    January 31, 2023 at 4:47 pm

    This is interesting.

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  4. les dunlap says

    February 1, 2023 at 2:19 am

    they cut it down because it was there! we think so different today than those before us!!!!!

    Reply

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