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80US History: 1851 - 1900
Several additional territories became states, USA acquired additional territories, set a Canadian Border and experienced their own American Civil War. The Gold Rush and the Railroads also created a flurry of activity, while Native Americans were driven West.
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70Mariposa County Courthouse: Historic Justice in the West
Mariposa County Courthouse, the white frame sentinel of a small foothill community, stands silently in its Greek Revival elegance, waiting for the next tumult to come and go. Hearings, trials , and other...
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72A Merchant Trader in the Gulf
A merchant trader in the Gulf is a story that will end with the 1982 Kuwait stock market crash when the Souk al-Manakh plunged the oil rich nation into near economic disaster. The lead up to the Kuwait market...
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69Silly Person's Guide to a Gold Rush Museum
Visitors from all over the world come into The Mariposa Museum and History Center each year. One of the unique and important things about this museum in California's Gold Country, is that almost all of...
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76Mariposa: A Town That Survived the Gold Rush
The footprint of this little town was laid out in the California gold-rush era. Unlike other settlements that grew "organically" according to the random placement of campsites, miners shacks and deer...
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79Legends of Texas-John Coffee Hays
Texas history is full of figures who seem larger than life. Like the characters out of a Greek myth, the early settlers and pioneers of Texas often seem more a product of fantasy than reality. What...
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60Hot Big Bear California Girls
Big Bear Lake is a lovely city in San Bernardino County, California neighbooring the southern-most shore of Big Bear Lake. Big Bear Lake was originally populated by the endemic Serrano Indians for more...
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63New Braunfels Texas
About 15 miles northeast of San Antonio, on I-35, New Braunfels Texas is a small town where you can tube on the Guadalupe River. Visit the state's longest running bakery, called Naeglin's at 129 S. Seguin...
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72Pioneer of the California Gold Rush
From 1803 to 1880 there lived a man named John Augustus Sutter (born Johan Suter). He would go down in history as a pioneer of the California Gold Rush. The man was inventive and needed to be since he was the...
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74The Day They Went For Gold
While the California Gold Rush began as early as January of 1848, news of the discovery, while massively popular, was not officially announced until December 5th 1848, when then US President James Polk...
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