Someone told me recently that the first big group of California gold rush miners didn’t come from the continental United States, but from Hawaii. Is that true? Sarah Schumann Kenosha, Wisconsin Seafarers from San Francisco carried the news to the Hawaiian Islands, among other places. Subsequently, 19 ships pulled anchor and set sail for the gold fields of Northern California, arriving much sooner than the eastern United States goldseekers who had to trudge overland or go around the horn to get

True West May/June 2025
In This Issue:
Features
- Historic Hotels of the American West
- A Journey Through Wyoming’s Outlaw History
- A Journey Through Washington’s Wild Frontier
- Blazing The Oregon Trail
- Journey Through Time
- Did Brigham Young Order a Massacre?
- Mountain Meadows Scapegoat John D. Lee VS. A Firing Squad
- Mormons in the Movies
- An Indigenous Consultant Ensures Accuracy
- The Battle Axe And A Raw Deal
- Showdown: Bridger VS. Brigham
- The Mountain Man and the Mormon Moses
- The Ghosts of Mountain Meadows
- The War Before the War
- Mountain Meadows