The old Indian legend is that the top of Table Mountain was cut off by Coyote and taken to the middle of the Valley so he’d have a dry place to stay in winter and where it is now known as the Sutter Buttes.
My uncles used to take me along when they went deer hunting up there, back before it was carved up into small parcels. I have to admit that Table Mountain never looked much good as a gold claim or as dinosaur habitat. All I ever saw up there was manzanita and jack rabbits.
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