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Wanderlust strikes a son of early Vacaville / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [213] [WAYITWAS-2004-213]
This is the final column on the family of Luzena and Mason Wilson and their four children. The information is based on the research by Fern Henry in her book "My Checkered Life: Luzena Stanley Wilson in Early California."
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Luzena Wilson sold land to Buck family / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [209] [WAYITWAS-2004-209]
This column concludes the story of Luzena Stanley Wilson and Mason Wilson. The information is based on Luzena's memoirs and the research by Fern Henry in her new book "My checkered Life: Luzena Stanley Wilson in Early California."
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Disasters follow pioneer family / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [205] [WAYITWAS-2004-205]
My last column talked about the experiences of Luzena Stanley Wilson and Mason Wilson in Sacramento during the winter of 1849-1850. The information is based on Luzena's memoirs and the research by Fern Henry in her new book "My Checkered Life: Luzena Stanley Wilson in Early California."
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Thomas Wilson led a varied life / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [211] [WAYITWAS-2004-211]
My last column covered Luzena's last years and Correnah's life. This column will talk about the oldest son, Thomas. The information once again is based on Luzena's memoirs and the research by Fern Henry in her new book "My Checkered Life: Luzena Stanley Wilson in Early California."
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Misfortune bedevils early Vaca family / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [207] [WAYITWAS-2004-207]
My last column talked about the challenges Luzena Stanley Wilson and Mason Wilson faced during their first year in Vaca Valley. The information is based on Luzena's memoirs and the research by Fern Henry in her new book "My checkered Life: Luzena Stanley Wilson in Early California."
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Flood sweeps away investment / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [203] [WAYITWAS-2004-203]
My last column talked about Luzena Stanley Wilson and Mason Wilson's overland journey to California. The information is based on Luzena's memoirs and the research by Fern Henry in her new book "My Checkered Life: Luzena Stanley Wilson in Early California."
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Voyage west was full of hardships / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [201] [WAYITWAS-2004-201]
My last column talked about the early life of Luzena Stanley Wilson, who grew up in a Quaker family in North Carolina. The information is based on Luzena's memoirs and the research by Fern Henry in her new book "My Checkered Life: Luzena Stanley Wilson in Early California."
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Gold Rush lured family to California / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [199] [WAYITWAS-2004-199]
Luzena Stanley Wilson and her husband, Mason Wilson, are two names that resonate through Vacaville's early history. The couple arrived in California with their two toddlers in 1849, attracted by the Gold Rush. They experienced the hardships of the rough society of Sacramento and Nevada City before finally settling in the fertile Vaca Valley in 1851.
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Pruners' Strike still evokes unease / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [141] [WAYITWAS-2002-141]
All communities have darker episodes in their history. For Vacaville, one of these periods occurred during November and December of 1932 and into early 1933. Mentioning the Vacaville Pruners' Strike, also known as the Vacaville Riots, still evokes unease in many residents, though 70 years have passed since then.
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Spanish Pruners Strike 1932 Spanish Pruners Strike 1932
2008

From 1911 to 1913, eight thousand Spanish families immigrated from Spain to the Hawaiian Islands. Promises of land and education were broken, nearly all continued to California, many would find their way to the fields and orchards of the San Joaquin Valley. In 1932 they went on strike. With the help of the IWW they took on the establishment, riots, beatings, lynching and the courts finally stopped them in California's first labor dispute in the fields. [...]


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