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According to Gudde: "The mountain chain, forming the divide of the headwaters of Russian River and Clear Lake , was named for the Indians on the west slope, probably a division of the Yuki . According to Barrett (Pomo, p. 269), there was a Yukian Wappo Village, Maiya'kma, one mile south of Calistoga . Serro de los Mallacomes (Mount Saint Helena) is shown on a diseno of the Caymus grant (1836). Later the name appears in the title and on the disenos of a land grant Mallacomes y Plano de Agua Caliente or Moristul, dated September 3, 1841, and October 11 and 14, 1843. The present spelling is used in the Statutes of 1850 (pp. 60 f.). Although this version was also used by the Whitney Survey, confusion persists to the present day. The Geographic Board (Fifth Report) decided for Miyakma, but in 1941 it reversed this decision in favor of Mayacmas ('not Miyakma, Cobb Mountain Range, Malacomas, Mayacamas, nor St. Helena Range'). The stream is still called Maacama Creek." REFERENCES |