4. COULTERVILLE, CA George Coulter was just seeking his fortune when he and his wife made the long trek from Pennsylvania to California in 1848. Yet the practical man saw more money could be made in selling merchandise to Forty-Niners. Coulter set up a tent store along a creek in the Sierra Nevada foothills, about 145 miles east of San Francisco. He opened a hotel in 1850 and developed the little town throughout his lifetime (he died in 1902 and is buried in the local cemetery). The citizens lat
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