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Historical Clippings Book (HC-20) (169 pages)

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Both events today are part of our own historical fabric, because California then was rather safely tucked away to sleep three quarters of a century more under Spanish and Mexican rule until the little seed planted in Philadelphia would grow as the United States in stature across the continent from the Atlantic shore to the Pacific with strength to take California for itself under the Stars and Stripes. Sometimes when you feel thankful or grateful for what you have here, just marvel a little and give thanks as Americans for the guiding care over California which enabled our young nation dedicated to new principles of liberty and brotherhood to come into being and grow strong enough to take this great western country for our people today. With this strength came the advancing footsteps of the pioneers, destined to win for us this American Heritage, California. Their trail finders were the American trappers of the Rockies, the Mountain Men. They appeared so often over a pass through the Sierra Nevada by way of one river system that the anxious Mexican authorities had been inspired to name it, El Rio de los Americanos (the American River). Again, is it not remarkable in line with the guiding purpose of Providence to preserve the secret of a tremendous treasure of California gold for Americans that the Mexicans nearly twenty years earlier had been inspired to name the river where the disclosure of gold nuggets would later come, the American River? Prospectors cradling for gold on American River.