RFD by Andy Genzali. He tells a story of a band of wandering tribe of Yucca's (?) passed through Hayfork in 1862 razing buildings & making trouble. From Hayfork they went south up Hayfork where they met a small homestead of a women & her little daughter. She killed 2 of the 20 warriors by firing her rifle from an upstairs window. They burned her barn & went westward into the Mad River drainage & up the drainage over into the Eel River where they were stopped at Island Mtn by a hunting party of "Digger Indians" (Wailaki ?). They fought for several days whereby the Digger Indians routed them into the Trinity RIver to a spot now known as Forest Glen. From there the Yuccas travelled up the Trinity to the forks of the South Fk & East Fk where they again met their old enemies, the Digger Indians. Again there was a battle & again they were routed- so they went south to Blue Gap a bloody massacre occurred & the Yucca were wiped out. So, hence forth, the Blue Gap area is referred to as the Indian Battle Grounds. The site is now traversed by a forest service road going south from the Harrison Gulch Ranger Station & ending about a mile post the battle grounds and mile north of the SF Trinity.