A Visit to the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, Baker City, Oregon
Ever since I began researching the Oregon Trail route for my novel about travel along
May 6, 2015
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Ever since I began researching the Oregon Trail route for my novel about travel along
The vast majority of miners during the California Gold Rush were men. The census of
After helping me clean out my parents’ house after my father died, my husband got
I’ve written about panning for gold and rockers and Long Toms. Inevitably, as the search
As I wrote last month, the early California gold miners began with placer mining, simply picking
One of the things I found in going through my father’s papers was some genealogies
Last year I recounted the story of James Marshall finding a gold nugget at Sutter’s
It wasn’t until December 1848 that President James Polk acknowledged that gold had been found
I’ve been fixated recently on what happened in 1964—fifty years ago—as 2014 winds to an
The short answer to why usually I ask questions at the end of my posts