Long ago, young Lucy Cooper became annoyed by the wind that blew her clothing around and brought sacred acorn meal from her house as an offering to the wind, after which it stopped. Her Pomo village, Kah-la-deh-mun, meaning "surrounded by trees," provided her people with a summer site for collecting plentiful coastal foods. In 1850, the San Francisco bound brig Frolic wrecked on a reef a few miles to the south, and when Jerome Ford arrived to salvage the cargo, he "discovered" the redwood forests. Within a few years, lumber mills operated at nearly every cove along the coast. In 1856, Fort Bragg was built as a military base to control native people so that commerce could take advantage of newly-found richer. Lucy Cooper could not stop the influx of settlers or the removal of her people from these bluffs and the deadly march to a Covelo reservation. After she and her husband escaped the reservation and returned, she found that a lumber mill had replaced her home. Nevertheless, she stayed and rebuilt her life there, creating the woven baskets for which she became famous, and she died in 1945.