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US 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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Mariposa 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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Corner from Sharq Mall. Photo borrowed from Khalid Almousad on flickr. The power of leverage is seen in the abundance but bubbles burst and history changes financial wealth from one geographical area to another in the blink of an eye. The show always72

A 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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Silly 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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Mariposa: 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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Legends 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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Hot 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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New 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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Pioneer 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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The 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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