Agriculture “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 Read More
Holidays & Celebrations “These Priests . . . by the Help of the Aborigines, Made the Wilderness ‘Blossom Like the Rose'”: California Indians in Ballou’s Pictorial, 2 May 1857 by homesteadmuseum Posted on May 2, 2025 Read More
Labor “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 Read More