The Mark Twain tree (giant sequoia)🌍

The Mark Twain tree is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in a grove of large stumps in Kingsx Canyon National Park, reaching 300 feet (91 m) in height before it was cut down in 1891.

The process of cutting down the tree took 13 days and was carried out by loggers Bill Mills and S.D. Phips with the assistance of Barney and John Luke. Later sections of the tree trunk were sent to the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the British Museum in London.

The stump remains in the grove of the Big Stump and is known as the "Big Stump" or "Mark Twain Stump".

In the first photo: Fifty men standing on a massive stump of a Mark Twain Tree.


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