I’ve blogged about some boring topics related to my research for my Oregon Trail and
On our recent drive from Washington State to Missouri, my husband and I detoured to
The Great Migration of 1843 was the first significant group of emigrants to head west.
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