HISTORY PORTAL Twilight of the Dawn COMMUNITIES Christmas in the Gold Fields Cornish in Grass Valley Early Nevada County Justice Grass Valley's Great Fire of 1855 CULTURE Chinese Tong War Cultural History: African Americans Cultural History: Chinese Americans Cultural History: Japanese Americans Cultural History: Mexican Americans Cultural History: Native Americans Native Americans: Shadows on the Land ENTERTAINMENT Chaplin's Gold Rush Camping in the Great Outdoors LAND AND ENVIRONMENT Coping with Snow David Beesley's Crow's Range Fall of The Forest Monarchs Philip Fradkin's Sierra Nevada Tom Philp's Hetch Hetchy Reclaimed Saving the Sierra Seashells in the Sierra Von Schmidt Survey MINING Gold Lake Fiasco Gold Mining Techniques Hydraulic Mining - Sawyer Decision Monitors - Water Cannons SIERRA NEVADA CHRONICLES James Beckwourth Black Bart J.D. Borthwick John Bidwell Kit Carson Jervie Henry Eastman Desire Fricot Lewis Keseberg Alma Lavenson Lawrence & Houseworth John Rollin Ridge The Tommyknockers TRANSPORTATION Central Pacific Railroad Timeline First Airplane Flights Theodore Judah The Ultimate Thrill Ride
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.