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.
Today, we have a special interview episode with one of my favorite historians, Alan Taylor. Taylor is an American historian specializing in early United...
In this episode, we continue our story of California and the Civil War by introducing the major conflict in the southwestern theater: Union Forces...
Today, we explore the Tolowa tribe, a native group from the NW corner of California.