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 the second episode in this series, we wrap up our discussion of the Know Nothing party's influence in California.
Tom Chaffin was born and grew up in Atlanta and spent his early professional years in journalism, living in, among other places, Savannah, New...
Today, I have an interview for you with George Miles, curator of the Western American Collection at the Beinecke Library at Yale. We spend...