Western Heads Cool As Gold Fever Begins in the East
When autumn came to 1848, San Francisco was already a boom town and coping with
When autumn came to 1848, San Francisco was already a boom town and coping with
Word of the Sutter’s Fort gold discovery reached Oregon in the summer of 1848. Oregon
In 1971, when I was fifteen, I went on a People to People High School
As I review my novel about the California Gold Rush with my writing critique partners,
By the beginning of June 1848 there were around 2,000 miners in the Sierra Nevada
I deliberately keep this blog away from politics. I’m told that writing about a hot-button
I wrote last time about Marshall, Missouri. Marshall does have one claim to fame—it was
I first visited Missouri in early June 1977, before my now-husband and I were married.
Although James Marshall found gold on the north fork of the American River in late
Many family heirlooms—or future heirlooms—have sentimental value because of the stories behind them. But the