“The Stan” didn’t keep us waiting. Though I hadn’t held an oar in years, I gripped mine with white knuckles and paddled for dear life from the moment we hit the North Fork of the Stanislaus River. Our raft immediately plunged into a raging torrent, rocking the boat so wildly that we lost a l…
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Twenty-thousand years ago, the most prominent mineral in the Sierra Nevada was ice. The Sierra, in the ice age, was under a massive burden. Gl…
In 1948, commemorating the centennial of James Marshall’s discovery of gold in California, the state Division of Mines handed Gov. Earl Warren…
Where the 49ers found gold was later described as part of the Sierran or Mother Lode Gold Belt, a term used to label a 120-mile long, mile-wid…
