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 prepare for the arrival permanent settlements in California by looking at the events leading up to the Portola Expedition.
Richard White is an historian of the United States specializing in the American West, the history of capitalism, environmental history, history and memory, and...
In this final episode, we discuss the end of the Civil War, and I recommend some further reading.