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After the Gold Rush
A thrilling, serialized, true history of San Francisco and California.
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California History After the Gold Rush: The Knights of the Golden Circle
Before and during the Civil War, powerful Southern forces were working to turn California into a slave state. When the war started, San Francisco…
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California History After the Gold Rush: Chapter 18 — Adolph Sutro in the Comstock
By 1855 the California Gold Rush was over for all but wealthy investors who could afford to build the machinery now required to mine. But the Silver…
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California history After the Gold Rush: Chapter 17 - Mary Ellen Pleasant, The Executive Committee
Athenaeum Saloon, San Francisco, May 1860: "This nomination was so wholly unexpected that the Republicans of the state appear to have had their breath…
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Chapter 16: Mary Ellen Pleasant, Lisette Flohr
1860: Barbary Coast, San Francisco. So I had my contacts. I had my laundries. I had my catering jobs. I had my identities. I had myself my own growing…
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California History After the Gold Rush: THEODORE & ANNA JUDAH
I’m a California native and I minored in American history at Berkeley, but I’d never known how close California came to domination by the slave powers…
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Chapter 14: General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Don Vallejo’s elegant estate was in turmoil. The preparations for the tea had been going on for days. And now the guest of honor, the scandalous young…
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Chapter 13: Mary Ellen Pleasant
People are always talking about how wretched the journey to San Francisco was. Well, I traveled as a white woman, under a false name, using papers Jean…
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