Tamara Venit Shelton is associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College and author of Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace and A Squatter’s Republic: Land and the Politics of Monopoly in California, 1850–1900.
Today we have Andrew Alden on the show. Alden is a geologist and geoscience writer who has worked for the US Geological Survey and...
In this episode, we wrap the section on the Democratic Party in California in the 1850's.
We review the four major groups of Natives living in California before Europeans arrived.