Wiley Joiner takes us through the early development of Central California, beginning with Padre Junipero Serra's establishment of the missions, and follows the footsteps of the earliest settlers in their encounters with the indigenous tribes.
From there we are carried along through the tumultuous gold rush period beginning with the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848.
Very little of California's soil had been trodden by the foot of civilized man previous to disc.
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