Cheryl Anne Stapp

It’s called the Russian River because there were Russian settlements on the river itself and at other nearby sites from 1812 to 1841....

California’s north-south cultural split began as early as 1821, the year Mexico won its independence from Spain and acquired the province...

In August 1839, after several days of sailing upstream on the Sacramento River, a Swiss citizen named John Sutter arrived in the...

There is no doubt that Americans have a passion for cheese: in snacks, sandwiches and main dishes. Why, Crayola even named one of its...

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...