... cabin is the cream filling in a cannabis Oreo. I am caught between accepting this latest gold rush economy as the antidote for a historically poor area and feeling protective of the land. Not all growers are as ideal as my neighbors; many use harmful fertilizers, leave the land worse for wear, and lure...

... of the University of California 2016 Californian Gold Rush environment 19th century Olmsted John Muir Josiah Royce Richard Rodriguez hybridity Photograph by Matt Gush. d.j. waldie What Does It Mean to Become Californian? W hat does it mean to become Californian? It means being witness to anepic...

... Tyler Charley’s Butte Edward Duplex Gold Rush Brother Jonathan Port Saint George Julian, San Diego County. America Newton was a free woman, likely a former slave, who traveled west after the Civil War. She settled in Julian, California, in 1872. Gold had been discovered there by another free...

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... in the settlement period—are better witnesses of California’s past. Lynching was common in frontier California, and native trees, mainly oaks and sycamores, were used by vigilance committees for extrajudicial executions. Once the Gold Rush was distant enough for commemoration, hang trees became objects of folklore...