The Mount of the Holy Cross and Tigiwon

Description

Herman Newquist's family arrived in the Eagle Valley around 1920. The family would homestead near Bellyache Mountain and Herman has described his childhood, family, and events of the area in several small manuscripts. This manuscript focuses on the years of pilgrimages up Mount of the Holy Cross led by Dr. O.W. Randall or "Doc Randall". The Tigiwon shelter and community house, built during the Great Depression, became a focal point for gatherings and campfires after the groups would descend the mountain. "We, our family" owed him quite a sum of money for dental bills; so he said we could work out our debt if we went up on his place across Battle Mountain to build a road to his place and on up to Camp Tigiwon... from wher they could glimpse the Mount of the Holy Cross." - page 1, Newquist.