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Tag: California gold rush

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“She Will Be a Territory, and Then a State, of the American Confederacy, and Nothing Else”: News of California and the Mexican-American War in Letters from Niles’ National Register, 5 February 1848

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 5, 2026
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  • Labor

“A Series of Interesting Sketches and Scenes in California” in Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing Room Companion, 30 October 1852

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  • Posted on October 30, 2024
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  • Politics & Government

“The Western Empire State”: A Report of the Senate Judiciary Committee on California Statehood, 15 January 1849

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on January 15, 2019December 29, 2020
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  • Politics & Government

Military Governor Bennet Riley’s Visit to the California Gold Fields, Summer 1849, Part Two

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on August 31, 2018January 8, 2021
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  • Miscellaneous

Read All About It: “New York Tribune,” 24 February 1849

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 24, 2018January 11, 2021
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  • Agriculture

Homestead Book Club Discussion on “Cattle on a Thousand Hills”

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on November 3, 2017December 21, 2020
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All in the Family/Beyond the Grave Two-Fer: The Death and Funeral of David Workman, 1855

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 27, 2017December 23, 2020
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  • Workman & Temple Family

All in the Family: The Arrival of the David Workman Family in Los Angeles, October 1854, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 25, 2017December 23, 2020
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  • Holidays & Celebrations

Admission Day: California’s Admission to the Union and the 1850 Federal Census

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on September 9, 2017December 28, 2020
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  • Politics & Government

Artifact Spotlight: The Report of T. Butler King to President Zachary Taylor, March 1850

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on February 18, 2016December 30, 2020
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  • From Point A to Point B With a Letter from Western Auto Supply Company, Los Angeles, 23 July 1927, Part One
  • “It Is Whether You Shall Be Governed By Yourself Or Be Misgoverned by Wowsers, Bounders and Numskulls”: The Debate About Prohibition in the Presidential Campaign, July 1928

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