Cheryl Anne Stapp

California’s odd shape permits its northern port city of Eureka to be the most westward city in the continental United States—yet its...

This Sacramento Valley ranch is long gone, but its colorful history is legend…and its fame still reverberates in the names of streets,...

Today, commercial mills are complex, high-tech installations. Long ago, however, skilled artisans hand-carved granite millstones into...

Several weeks elapsed after the January 1848 gold discovery before people started believing it was genuine…and then events started...