Mount Shasta has been held sacred for millennia. The oldest known human habitation in the region dates back some seven thousand years, and by the 1820s nine Native American tribes lived within view of the mountain — among them the Shasta, the Modoc and the Klamath.
A century later, in 1918, a millionaire horseman named Harry D. “Curley” Brown bought 1,577 acres near Sisson to raise racing thoroughbreds. What he built here he called Brownshasta. The house at its centre still stands, and still keeps the mood of those early years.
Today it is eleven guestrooms, a carriage house and a cottage: antique furnishings throughout, a stone fireplace in the living room, and a veranda long enough to lose an afternoon on — with the mountain filling the whole of the view.
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