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74Places to Find Treasure
My favorite treasure hunting story happened to my wife and me when I first moved to California. I used online resources to locate an abandoned Gold Mine near Mariposa CA. We drove up from Monterey with the...
81Cactus and Yucca Flowers
There is a very vivid childhood memory of my little brother hollering and crying in fear and anger, as he lay across my grandmother's knees -- her wielding a pair of pliers, attempting to remove the prickly...
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72"A Fair to Remember" Mariposa County 2009
Yes, the theme for this year's county fair was "A Fair to Remember", and what made it so memorable was that it was pretty much the same as all small county fairs have been since the beginning of history. ...
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79Luxuriant Flowers of The Rocky Mountains
In the Rocky Mountains, the mountain zone occupies the slopes of middle elevations and includes all the taller, richer forests. Pine, spruce, and fir trees are most plentiful, and their shade is often so...
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76Mariposa 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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75The Gold Rush Store: Everything in General
The Gagliardo General Store building still stands in the old mining town of Hornitos, but most of the original fixtures, shelves, counters and display cases -- along with much old merchandise --has gone into...
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71Silly 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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64National Parks-Yosemite
Yosemite National Park, one of the first in the United States to be name a wilderness park, is a testament to the ages and how time and the elements transform a landscape. Given the designation...
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79Mariposa: 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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67How to Sidestep the Trash Tidal Wave
If we could take a peek back into the old general store of a century or so ago we would see that there have been some changes in the way we shop. We have more choices today, but that variety is also...
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