A Few, Mad, Fatal Weeks
Surely the suffering was almost over. The cost had been so high. Thousands of young men had come for jobs,
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Building the First Cannery
Charlie Lane was a man of opportunity. He was a self-styled “Colonel,” one of those San Francisco mining speculators who
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I was intrigued when Susan Marsden proposed the idea of this blog, with a few of us telling historical stories.
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