Today in History - November 25

Today in History - November 25

“I have not come 20,000 miles,” Yankee trader Franklin A. Buck wrote to his sister Mary on November 25, 1849, “to turn around and go right back again like some persons who have been here and gotten homesick.” Buck was one of 40,000 people who traveled to California by sea during the gold rush of 1849. Continue reading.

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