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Republic of California
We all know that Texas was an independent republic before becoming a state. But did you know that California was an independent republic too? Here’s more about the Republic of California. Although owned by Mexico, back in 1846 there were very few Mexican settlers in California. In reality there American settlers comprised the largest segment of […]
California Joe
Moses Embree Milner was a well-built man, more than 6 feet in height. Not only did he constantly smoke a pipe, he chewed tobacco at the same time. In 1849, at the age of 20, he went to California like everyone else… for gold. Then he moved up to Oregon, and then to Montana where […]
Trailing Louis L’Amour From California to Alaska – Part One
THE FRONTIER SPIRIT OF LOUIS L’AMOUR THE LAND OF THE SUNSET SEA By Bert Murphy In five novels Louis L’Amour lets you experience Old California and the Pacific coast circa 1800 to 1880. When the railroad reached California in 1869, it diminished the frontier period. When it reached Los Angeles in 1876, the western frontier […]
Old West TV – California Gold Rush and James Marshall
Dakota Livesay gives us a history lesson about the California Gold Rush and James Marshall, an American carpenter and sawmill operator, who reported the finding of gold at Coloma on the American River in California on January 24, 1848, the impetus for the California Gold Rush.
GOLD DISCOVERED IN CALIFORNIA
On January 24, 1848, John Marshall and John Sutter discovered gold at a sawmill construction site near Sacramento, California. When James Marshall told Sutter of the gold discovery, his first thought was not of the potential of vast wealth, but of how it would adversely affect an empire he was developing called New Switzerland. Even […]
