"Karuk Dictionary and Texts". Retrieved 2012-07-06. ↑ The origin of the name "Shasta" is vague, perhaps from Russian (Чистая, meaning "white, clean, pure" or Счастье, meaning "happiness, luck, fortune, felicity"); the name might have been given to the mountain by the early Russian settlers in California. ↑ Dan Dzurisin; Peter H. Stauffer; James W. Hendley II; Sara Boore; Bobbie Myers; Susan Mayfield (1997).