History of taxes in California is interesting, odd

California’s early taxes were disproportionate to population and wealth, and in 1870 the state created the State Board of ...
Santa Maria Times

Col. Hollister: The man who helped shape California’s Central Coast | Our Storied History

Colonel William Wells Hollister was one of those larger-than-life figures of the Old West — the kind of man pulp magazines ...
Los Angeles Times

William Mason; California Historian, Author

He told us what our little pueblo was like when the 13 colonies of the Atlantic coast created the United States of America. He told us what developed over the seven decades before and the century and ...
Manteca Bulletin

The California Dream was ignited with primitive tests of a shiny nugget within the no thrills walls of Sutter’s Fort

The cradle of modern-day California civilization is not San Francisco or Los Angeles. It’s Sacramento, or more precisely, ...
Los Angeles Times

A mere trickle of funding gave us a flood of information about colonial California

We humans, if we are to live intentional and thoughtful lives, almost always return to a series of timeless questions: Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? To answer those questions ...