Cheryl Anne Stapp

Every California schoolchild learns of the hundreds of pioneers, seeking a better life for their families, who came overland in covered...

Legends of lost treasure are always intriguing, aren’t they? California history has several legends of “lost” mines of gold and other...

A dark-eyed beauty, Francisca Carrillo was born in San Diego when California was still a province of Imperial Spain, and raised in the...

The courageous folks who braved the overland trek to California in the 1840s knew they had to take enough food to last six months. After...