Across The Plains
…more western parts of the then United States, and therefore comprised men who had already some experience in pioneering. As far as the Mississippi or even Kansas these parties generally…
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…more western parts of the then United States, and therefore comprised men who had already some experience in pioneering. As far as the Mississippi or even Kansas these parties generally…
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…Delaware, and Ohio combined do not make an area as large as that of California.[1]California is the thirty-first state admitted into the Union. The coast line of the commonwealth is…
Northern California’s Climate Read More ยป
…pressing the measure before the legislature, and in face of considerable opposition he obtained its passage. This law is a protection to the public, and guarantees that only competent men…
Biography of Frederick Conrad Chinn Read More ยป
…ardor or opposed with equal earnestness the course which he believed would prove of benefit to the commonwealth or check its best interests. His service in the house won him…
Biography of William Alexander Anderson of Sacramento Read More ยป
…one of the quarter sections in question and his boon companion and comrade of years standing, Alex Matthews, filed on an adjacent quarter. Under the homestead law they then secured…
Biography of Alex Richard Underwood of Monterey California Read More ยป
…securing possession of California–by his expeditions, sent by sea and by land, of regular forces, followed by the volunteer regiment of one thousand men, under the command of Col. Jonathan…
…battle of Todos Santos and completely routed them, thus clearing all Lower California of hostile Mexicans. Mr. Ketcham remained at La Paz with his command until September 2, 1848, and…
Biography of General Thomas E. Ketcham of Stockton Read More ยป
…value to central California. He has attained precedence of many in his profession, having won an enviable position through marked ability and a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of the great…
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…commenced in the month of February, by a company composed of seventeen men, under the leadership of a gentleman from Maine, named Butterfield. The company was organized at a mining…
Bird Valley, Horse-shoe Bar, and Stony Bar, Placer County, California Read More ยป
John H. Freer, well known among El Monte’s early settlers, was the son of William H. Freer, who settled in El Monte in the seventies, a separate review of whom…
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