Before we begin our next major thematic section of the podcast on railroads, we will be looking at the life of Leland Stanford who serves a bridge between the Gold Rush era, the Civil War Era in California government, and the Transcontinental Railroad.
In this episode, we look at a few versions of the myth of Joaquin Murrieta.
In the second episode in this series, we wrap up our discussion of the Know Nothing party's influence in California.
Today we have Kevin Waite on the show. Kevin Waite is an associate professor at Durham Universisty and a political historian of the 19th-century...