What is it about Christmas? Be it 2009 or 1889, people who celebrate it always find a way to recognize this holiday. Whether it be cattlemen stuck on the open range in a snowstorm, fortune seekers in a mining camp or families in a hearth-warmed home on the prairie—it was Christmas, and people celebrated. Elizabeth Le Breton Gunn, who was living in Sonora, Cal


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