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<title>The Egg Thieves of the Farralon Islands</title>
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<description><![CDATA[During the Gold Rush, San Francisco ran out of eggs to feed the hungry gold miners. They began feeding them wild bird eggs.]]></description>
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<title>The Unruly Judge</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Judge William C. Heacock was a 3-card-monte dealer as well as the judge in the Albuquerque night court. As dealers had to fund their own games, Judge Heacock would order a deputy to bring him a disorderly drunk when he was short of money. He would fine the drunk, pocket the money and continue dealing 3-card-monte.]]></description>
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<title>The Voyage of the Winfield Scott</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Winfield Scott departed San Francisco with a full load of passengers and a shipment of gold bullion.  The date was December 1, 1853. It turned out to be the ship's final voyage--To the Bottom of the Sea.
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<title>Father of the California Wine Industry</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Agoston Haraszthy served as a member of the Royal Hungarian Guards but fled Europe for fear of being branded a revolutionist.]]></description>
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<title>The Lost Adams Diggings</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Lost Adams Diggings has never been found.]]></description>
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<title>The Tommyknockers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Cornish miners are convinced that Tommyknockers are real and help protect them and warn them of dangers.]]></description>
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<title>Seven Little Indians</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When Indian fighters find seven little Indians in cradles, they feel their only resort is to kill them. But none could rise to the task.]]></description>
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<title>My Story</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I was fired after 27 years writing for the same magazine. The magazine was sold but I was not financially or mentally ready to stop writing.]]></description>
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<title>The Rape of Monterey</title>
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<description><![CDATA[David Jack invested in Monterey County land when the county faced bankruptcy. When the county sued to get it back, Jack won.]]></description>
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<title>Cotton, Silkworms and Oranges</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Real estate prices were going through the roof and California offered great agricultural potential. There were some enterprizes that didn't pan out, however.]]></description>
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<title>California's Last Dry Town</title>
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<description><![CDATA[City fathers didn't approve of drinking inside its city limits and consequently the town had no liquor stores. The town administrators relented when they watched their residents cross city lines, buy their booze, then return home to drink it, without the city getting its share of the taxes.]]></description>
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<title>A Bawdy House Gets Saved</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:03:30 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The firemen were only interested in doing their civic duty. The fact that it was saving Madame Touvantes house of ill repute was simply coincidental.]]></description>
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<title>A Man Named Hollister</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ W.W. Hollister drove six thousand sheep from Ohio to California and then made his mark well after he arrived.]]></description>
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<title>Wheelbarrow Johnny</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This famous auto magnet was once known as "Wheelbarrow Johnny" for his craft during the California Gold Rush.]]></description>
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<title>California's First School Teacher</title>
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<description><![CDATA[California's first white school teacher faced threats from Indian attacks while she taught lessons to her pupils. Short of teaching supplies, she drew lesson plans on the dirt floor with the charcoal end of a burned stick.]]></description>
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<title>The Chinese in California</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Chinese were among the most abused ethnic groups in California during the Gold Rush.]]></description>
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<title>Stagecoach Drivers and Their Whips</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Stagecoach drivers treasured their whips. They frowned on the way the movie stagecoach drivers constantly cracked their whips. Cracking a whip in that fashion would simply scare the team and endanger the passengers.]]></description>
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<title>Efforts to Split California</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There have been more than 27 attemps to split California into states. Some historians maintain that if California was discovered today it would be split into multiple states resembling the New England Coast.]]></description>
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