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

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 30, 2024
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  • Holidays & Celebrations

“A Community Unparalleled in the Manifold Fusions of Races or Combinations of Men”: The “Birth-Day of California” in Littell’s Living Age, 15 March 1851

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 15, 2023March 16, 2023
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“A Man Without Worthy Aims and of Weak Principles Will Go to Perdition”: Mining Life in California in Harper’s Weekly, 3 October 1857

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on October 3, 2022
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“As It Were By Magic”: A Deeper Look at “T. Butler King’s Report on California,” 22 March 1850, Part One

  • by homesteadmuseum
  • Posted on March 27, 2021
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