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Missouri Democrat St. Louis (1858) [294] Osage County Volksblatt ( Westphalia ) (1896-1917) [ 295 ] St. Louis Commercial Bulletin and Missouri Literary Register (1835–1836) [ 296 ]
Lyman Stewart (July 22, 1840 – September 28, 1923) was a U.S. businessman and co-founder of Union Oil Company of California.Stewart was also a significant Christian philanthropist and cofounder of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles (now known as Biola University).
California Road established 1849, from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to California; California Trail from Missouri to California. Carolina Road from Roanoke, Virginia, on the Great Wagon Road through the Piedmont to Augusta, Georgia. Cherokee Trail along the Arkansas River from Indian Territory to Wyoming. Coushatta-Nacogdoches Trace (or Natchitoches)
The non-Indian population of California in 1840 was about 8,000, as confirmed by the California 1850 U.S. census, which asked everyone their place of birth. The Indian population is unknown but has been variously estimated at 30,000 to 150,000 in 1840.
Routes of the California, Mormon and Oregon Trails west of the Rocky Mountains. During the Mexican–American War, the wagon to California road known as Cooke's Wagon Road, or Sonora Road, was built across Nuevo Mexico, Sonora and Alta California from Santa Fe, New Mexico to San Diego. It crossed what was then the northernmost part of Mexico.
Recommended state highway system, 1896. The first state road was authorized on March 26, 1895, by the California State Legislature when it enacted a law which created the post of "Lake Tahoe Wagon Road Commissioner" to maintain the Lake Tahoe Wagon Road (the 1852 Johnson's Cut-off of the California Trail), now US 50 from Smith Flat — 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Placerville — to the Nevada ...
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St. Paul, MN: Minnesota History Society Press. ISBN 978-0-87351-270-1. Gilman, Rhoda R. (1991). The story of Minnesota's past. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society. ISBN 0-87351-267-7. Green, William Davis (2007). A peculiar imbalance: the fall and rise of racial equality in early Minnesota. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press.