Cheryl Anne StappMay 112 minFoiled IntriguePerhaps it’s only myth or legend (for sure, certain story elements are questionable), but nonetheless it’s a romantic tale, published as...
Cheryl Anne StappFeb 164 minMother Shoots Daughter's SeducerGunplay was so common during the chaotic, early days of the California Gold Rush that many incidents, though duly reported, drew little...
Cheryl Anne StappJan 53 minA Close AttachmentThe proverb “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” is from the 17th century play The Mourning Bride, and means that no one is angrier...
Cheryl Anne StappNov 17, 20213 minHe Robbed the Wrong WomanThe old mining town in Nevada County is gone now, but Red Dog had its heyday in the 1860s, when the place had nearly two thousand...
Cheryl Anne StappOct 6, 20213 minThe Terror of Merced CountyBorn to respectable, hard-working parents who had come to California as gold-rushers in 1849, Robert L. McFarlane quit the family farm in...
Cheryl Anne StappAug 11, 20212 minThe Sloughhouse GraveyardJared Sheldon, a carpenter by trade, officially received a Mexican land grant of 22,130 acres along the Cosumnes River in 1844—in payment...
Cheryl Anne StappAug 4, 20212 minInvasion at Monterey!In 1818, California was still an outlying province of Imperial Spain, even as New Spain (later, the Republic of Mexico) and other...
Cheryl Anne StappJun 16, 20212 minHideaway in Plain SightIn the 1850s the Mountaineer House was a well-known tavern and busy stage stop where multiple stagecoach lines rolled in daily to change...