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Quilt making in the 19th century was more than just the home-crafted production of usable warm bedding; it was also often the excuse for a social occasion. From Colonial times materials especially made for quilting were available, but on
Considering the short time Robert Semple lived in California, he made several contributions to the development of the state. Born in Kentucky, he apprenticed as a printer and somehow learned enough about dentistry to
Women and children constituted the majority of individuals who survived when the California-bound Donner Party wagon train was stranded in the Sierra Nevada over the winter of 1846-47. Fourteen year old Elitha Donner was rescued
Nineteen-year-old Sarah Montgomery and her husband Allen, a gunsmith, were members of an 1844 wagon train bound for Oregon that split off from the main group and instead headed for California as the Stevens-Murphy Party. After
One of the first cooks at the wilderness outpost called Sutter’s Fort was a thirty year old English sailor named William Daylor, said to have deserted his ship in California five years before Sutter hired him in 1840. There he met and
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