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 March/April 2025
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- Truth Be Known
- What Has Taught Me: Deb Goodrich
- Earp, Cowboy Songs & Prairie Hygiene
- Trails of the Old West
- The Frontier Characters of South Dakota
- The Bowie Knife
- The Kindled Flame 1835
- King of the Scatterguns
- Selling the Mythic West and the Real West
- A Gut Punch Turns into a Miracle Reprieve
- The Beginnings of the Bird Cage
- Frontier Colossus