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The official report that sparked the gold rush
Richard Barnes Mason, a colonel in the United States Dragoons the unit that later became the U.S. 1st Calvary, followed his own commander, General Stephen Watts Kearny, as Governor General of California, and faced some of the most important changes … Continue reading →