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Finding buried, one-of-a-kind treasures
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Bowen, Jerry
[85]
[WAYITWAS-2001-85]
During the early Pliocene period, approximately 12.5 million years ago, Solano County and the Bay Area was a vast alluvial plain and the Sierra Nevada was a relatively low mountain chain.
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Jewish family among Vaca's early setters
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[56]
[WAYITWAS-2001-56]
While many ethnic and religious groups came to California during the Gold Rush era, Jews made up a surprisingly small number among them.
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Writers impressed with local area in 1860s
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Delaplane, Kristin
[364]
[ECHOS-1997-364]
In the 1800s, writers from newspapers and publications visited Solano County and give a report on the area. The following are excerpts from an article that appeared in the California Rural Home Journal, which was published semimonthly in San Francisco.
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Local settlers traveled west with Donner Party
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Bowen, Jerry
[705]
[WAYITWAS-2007-705]
When you study our West's history it is always interesting to note how many of the pioneer stories have a claim that they were part of the Donner Party.
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Sea captains end up ashore in Suisun area
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[683]
[WAYITWAS-2006-683]
Like many pioneers, Capt. Josiah Wing came to California drawn by the Gold Rush and its famed opportunities for acquiring wealth in a short time.
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Wagon train finally reaches gold country
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Bowen, Jerry
[625]
[WAYITWAS-2006-625]
In my last installment of James Pleasants' trek to California, the wagon train members were able to gather scant water for themselves at Rabbit Springs - also known as Rabbit Hole Springs - and began making their way across a portion of the Black Rock Desert.
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Settlers followed the Spanish Trail to Solano
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Bowen, Jerry
[603]
[WAYITWAS-2005-603]
Today, travel from one corner of our continent to the other and indeed the entire world, is generally well-mapped and with so many modes of travel, quite easy.
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Documents a prelude to life in Solano
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[172]
[WAYITWAS-2003-172]
Not often do I find documents that offer insight into the whereabouts of a local pioneer family before members settled in Solano County. Fortunately, this is the case with the family of Carrie Pittman, whose grandson, William Smith, preserved letters, deeds and other documents currently on loan to the Vacaville Museum.
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Daring runs through Solano delivered
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Goerke-Shrode, Sabine
[164]
[WAYITWAS-2003-164]
During the early years of the Gold Rush, settlers were faced with a society that as yet could not offer many of the services they had been used to back East, such as banking and postal service.
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A taste of gold fever in Solano
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Bowen, Jerry
[140]
[WAYITWAS-2002-140]
The allure of gold and silver goes back a long way. An ancient culture in the area of today's Eastern Europe began roughly 6,000 years ago to use gold to fashion decorative objects. The gold probably was mined in the Transylvanian Alps or in the Mount Pangaion area of Thrace.
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