John Hicks Adams – Sheriff and U.S. Deputy Marshal
Pete Aguereberry – Mining Death Valley
Cyrus Alexander – Trapper and California Pioneer
Bum Blockade – Stopping the Depression Refugees
Charles “Black Bart” Bowles – Poet Outlaw
Francis Branch – Trader & Pioneer
William F. “Alkali Bill” Brong & the Death Valley Chug Line
Chattel Hood to Freedom – Black Pioneers of California
The Chilean Crusade for El Dorado
William T. Coleman – Shipping to Borax
James Dayton – Death Valley Swamper
George Hearst – Father of a Mining & Publishing Empire
Dr. Thomas J. Hodges – California Outlaw
Albert Johnson – Owner of Scotty’s Castle
The Kidnapping of Frank Sinatra, Jr.
Kintpuash, aka: Captain Jack – Modoc Warrior
James Marshall – Discovering Gold in California
The Modoc – Fighting in the Lava Beds
Joaquin Murrieta – Patriot or Desperado?
Arthur Kunze – Founder of Greenwater
Scarface Charley – Celebrated Modoc Warrior
Walter Scott, Better Known as Death Valley Scotty
Sontag Brothers – Outlaw Train Robbers
Francis “Borax” Marion Smith – The Borax King of Death Valley
Levi Strauss – King of the Blue Jeans
John A. Sutter – Boom & Bust in California
Sutter’s Own Story- Discovery of Gold
Tiburcio Vasquez – California Desperado
Stephen Venard – Goldrush Lawman
Vigilante Committees of San Francisco
Vigilantes of California, Idaho, & Montana
Women on the Move: Overland Journeys to California
Christian “Chris” Brevoort Zabriskie
By Kathy Weiser-Alexander, updated May 2021.
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