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Before the Gold Rush, Christmas was just another working day tending livestock or repairing equipment for those Americans who had settled in California, although many took time out for a few hours of quiet
As this New Year 2012 ushers in the potential for individual opportunities and world-wide occurrences, it is well to remember that history-making events don’t occur in a vacuum; they’re instigated by men and women chasing other ambitions
James Wilson Marshall was a skilled carpenter, wagon maker and millwright who spent his early adult life in Missouri before ill health convinced him to move to the West Coast. He arrived in California in mid-July 1845, where he quickly found
When gold was discovered in January 1848 while building a sawmill for John Sutter in the foothills valley called Coloma, sawmill crew-member Henry Bigler wrote to his fellow Mormon Battalion friends still in California after being discharged
In the annals of western migration, the worst tragedy befell the members of the Donner Party, who were trapped in the formidable, snow-bound Sierra Nevada Mountains during the winter of 1846-1847. Slightly more than half of them survived.
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