Our Story
Myra Buteau is an author and a filmmaker who creates local California historical documentaries and hosts film screenings.
Her documentaries include Gold Fever-The True Story of California's Gold Rush 1848-1855, Kennett-The Town Under Shasta Lake and The Mountain Men of the Siskiyou Trail.
Each documentary is captivating and captures the essence of the era by incorporating original art and recreations of historical events. All were created in collaboration with local historians, historical societies and universities.
Gold Fever-The True Story of California's Gold Rush 1848-1855 describes the discovery of gold and the hysteria it created that launched one the largest mass migrations in American history and established California as the 31st state.
Kennett-The Town Under Shasta Lake is the story of a 19th century copper mining ghost town in Northern California that now lies 400 feet underwater in Shasta Lake behind Shasta Dam.
The Mountain Men of the Siskiyou Trail is the story of California's fur trade starring trappers and traders known as mountain men who blazed a trail through 600 miles of uncharted wilderness from Fort Vancouver in southern Washington to San Francisco Bay that eventually became a railway paralleling one of the continent's most important highways known as Interstate 5 that now stretches from Mexico to Canada.
