November 1860 — Dutch Flat, California —— Ted Judah looked out over pine-covered hills and red-gold canyons and breathtaking vistas of the Sierras as he paced the wooden walkway outside the Dutch Flat Hotel, awaiting Anna’s stagecoach. The thriving mining town nestled at the headwaters of Bear River, fifty-five miles northeast of Sacramento. There was a general store, an opera house, several hotels, an Odd Fellows Hall, a stone jail, a Masonic building, and a large, industrious Chinese population.