Tulare Lake in 1872. It was the biggest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi before settlers drained it. The Yurok called it, "Pa'ashi", which means "big water."
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It was a seasonal lake on a flat plain, its shores ebbing and flowing with the annual wet-dry cycles. Sometimes it was a vast swath of mud and reeds, sometimes a shallow sea from horizon to horizon.
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