Discovery On January 24, 1848, California was still a part of the Mexican Republic - barely. In just over a week s time, The United States of America an.
Sloan was inspired to write his book following a 2006 series of stories about the 21ers written by Matthias Gafni, reporting for the Vallejo Times-Herald. Gafni, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, now writes for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Sloan was inspired to write his book following a 2006 series of stories about the 21ers written by Matthias Gafni, reporting for the Vallejo Times-Herald. Gafni, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, now writes for the San Francisco Chronicle.
General Grant’s beleaguered forces faced an increasingly dire situation in April 1862; a pair of U.S. Navy gunboats helped engineer a reversal of fortune for the U.S. Army.