Cheryl Anne Stapp
Affair of Honor
Dueling was outlawed in California at its pre-statehood Constitutional Convention in the fall of 1849. However, the penalty imposed for...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
Jul 6, 20222 min read
A History Museum's History
Today’s Sacramento History Museum, which opened to the public in 1985, is housed in a replica of the city’s 1854 City Hall and Waterworks...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
Jun 29, 20223 min read
The Gem
In its heyday, Columbia was known as the “Gem of the Southern Mines” for its prodigious output of gold, averaging $100,000 or more per...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
Jun 22, 20223 min read
Boom & Bust in Bodie
Once it was a good-sized mining settlement—a rip-roaring, wild-west boomtown. Today Bodie is a wind-swept ghost town, a tourist...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
Jun 15, 20223 min read
California's Film Industry
Hollywood! To movie fans all over the world, the name is synonymous with glamour, stardom, and cinematic dreams; a place also known—by...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
Jun 8, 20223 min read
The Sacramento: River of Gold
At 447 miles in length the Sacramento River is the longest river that flows through California, with a watershed that encompasses more...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
Jun 1, 20223 min read
Ocean Shore Railroad
In May 1905, the public was thrilled when newspapers announced that a new enterprise was to build a railroad on a scenic route between...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
May 25, 20223 min read
Proof is in the Picture
In mid-nineteenth century California, rich men tended to own racehorses, or perhaps sponsor a horse or two owned by someone else; or at...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
May 18, 20221 min read
Dog Town Diggings
More than one gold rush mining camp was dubbed “dog town” by its inhabitants—miner’s slang for coarse, thrown-together encampments of...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
May 11, 20222 min read
Foiled Intrigue
Perhaps it’s only myth or legend (for sure, certain story elements are questionable), but nonetheless it’s a romantic tale, published as...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
May 4, 20223 min read
The American River
They thought the American River was just a lovely stream of fresh water flowing through the valley from somewhere high in the unexplored...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
Apr 27, 20222 min read
Legendary Hank Monk
Gregarious, quick of mind and firm of hand on the reins, stage driver Hank Monk was a legend in his own lifetime—revered across the West...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
Apr 19, 20223 min read
Serving California by Sea
In the Age of Sail, not everyone who entered California’s harbors came to settle. In the early 1820s, the ships of many nations began...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
Apr 13, 20223 min read
Pony Brings News of Ft. Sumter
By April 1861, California had been a state of the Union for only ten and a half years. As yet, no telegraph lines connected it with the...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
Apr 6, 20222 min read
The Russian River
It’s called the Russian River because there were Russian settlements on the river itself and at other nearby sites from 1812 to 1841....
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
Mar 30, 20224 min read
A Remarkable Life
She was a woman of remarkable qualities; a woman who rose from being an uneducated young bride going west in a covered wagon in 1844, to...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
Mar 23, 20223 min read
Haunted by Tragedy
Her real name was Meriam but everyone called her Mary. She was a Donner Party survivor, fifteen when she was rescued from a...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
Mar 16, 20222 min read
Her Fight for Education
Elizabeth Thorn Scott Flood was the capable, determined 19th century woman who paved the way for desegregated education for children of...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
Mar 9, 20223 min read
An Ordinary Woman
Teenaged Eliza Marshall emigrated with her family from England to the United States in 1839. They settled in Pawtucket, in the section of...
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Cheryl Anne Stapp
Mar 2, 20224 min read
The Richest Woman
In her later years Mary Frances Hopkins was publicly castigated as a rich, vain, willful woman; her conduct judged foolish and scandalous...
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