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Aug 26, 20231 min read

Argonauts of California: Being the Reminiscences of Scenes & Incidents that Occurred in California

PDF File Book Charles Warren Haskins 1890 Link to view online https://archive.org/details/argonautscalifor00hask

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Jul 14, 20231 min read

California Gold Rush stories John Sutter James W. Marshall Samuel Brannan and Brigham Young

Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.), 13 March 1935. Chronicling America: Historic American...

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Oct 9, 20221 min read

Photo 1923 Civil War Vets Proud of Beards

From Chronicling America Library of Congress 1923 BEAVER! Civil War Vets in Los Angels who are proud of their beards.

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Aug 13, 20201 min read

John T. Crook Testimony: Scams to Get the Hopkins Fortune: Seances, Table Tipping, and Slate Writing

John T. Crook Jr., who provided key testimony in Timothy Hopkins’s suit to overturn Mary Hopkins Searles’s will. (Credit: from the...

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Aug 8, 20201 min read

A Scam to Claim Railroad Magnate Mark Hopkins's Fortune

Mark Hopkins, American railroad magnate, co-founder of the Central Pacific Railroad. (Image credit: I.W. Taber, Wikimedia Commons)...

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