Rhiannon Pinson

Bayard Taylor 1825-1878 Man of letters, poet, novelist, travel writer, author 1849 journalist sent to cover the Gold Rush Four and half months in California returned to New York and book was in stores by 1850 "San Francisco by Day and Night" wakes to sounds of building 6:30 breakfast all hammering ceases 9 full flow of business 2 dinner "seated on the slopes of its three hills, the tents pitched among the chapparal to the very summits, it gleams like an amphitheatre of fire." (Bayard Taylor 145) "the word waiter is not considered sufficiently respectful, seeing that the "waiter" may have been a lawyer or merchant's clerk a few months before. T'tcetsa Lucy Young 1846-1944 Born near Alderpoint in Humboldt County  Father was Alderpoint Wailaki and her mother was cousin to a Lassik chief In 1930's shared her story with Edith Van Allen Murphey-friend and botanist Lucy's Story from Out of the Past: A True In...

Sarah Eleanor Royce April 1849 left Council Bluffs Iowa with 2 year old daughter Settled in Grass Valley "Pilgrimage Diary" writings became A Frontier Lady "A Frontier Lady" camped near Col J and his men for protection Oct 21 2 arrows fired at men sleeping in neighboring camp by the fire Oct 24 reached "Pleasant Valley Gold Mines" rested 2-3 days, continued to Weaverville Husband struck up partnership to open a store Beef added to items for purchase "This gave me an opportunity to see most of the dwellers in Weaverville; and observe in a small way their behavior to each other.  The majority of them were, as I have said, men of ordinary intelligence, evidently accustomed to life in an orderly community where morality and religion bore sway...Even in their intercourse with each other, they often alluded to this feeling and in the presence of a woman, then so unusual, most of them showed it in a very marked manner...Roughly reared fro...