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We’ve been wandering the western Sierra Nevada, visiting unique California state parks and revisiting the legacy of the California Gold Rush, cultural and…
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We’re finally heading up the road to visit California’s gold country, those countless mines and settlements scattered across the Sierra Nevada’s western…
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We’ve been talking about how California’s Gold Rush of 1849 created the state we know today. In his book California: The Great Exception, historian Carey…
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Journalist and historian Carey McWilliams, long-time editor of The Nation, published the exceptional California history book California: The Great…
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Historian Carey McWilliams wrote California: The Great Exception, first published in 1949, to commemorate the Golden State’s first 100 years of statehood.…