Southern California has its fair share of gold rushes. While it’s true that hey never reached the excitement levels of the discoveries of the Mother Lode, that doesn’t mean that they weren’t significant. Some surprisingly rich gold strikes were made in the desert of SoCal. One lesser-known discovery was made at Lytle Creek, in the […]
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The Most Dangerous Man in Gold County – Joaquin Murrieta
As with so many stories from the Old West, the tale of Joaquin Murrieta is a blend of truth and legend that is impossible to completely sort out. If you prefer the older histories by Hubert Howe Bancroft, which were based on the newspaper stories by John Rollin Ridge, Murrieta was a good man treated […]