Last time we started a story about a “Tong War” in July of 1854 between two groups of Chinese who lived near Weaverville, Trinity County. The story is taken from the pages of the “Shasta Courier.” The parties met in…
Category: Criminal Annals
Criminal Annals, Part 78 – The Chinese
Much has been written about the poor treatment of the Chinese miners and merchantmen by the rest of the people in early California. The dislike and jealousy for these people who worked so hard and could find gold in played-out…
Criminal Annals, Part 77 – Issues at Georgetown
The springtime weather of 1852 brought out the miners in the Mother Lode who had been cooped up for the winter when the water was too high and too cold for mining. But that is not the only people it…
Criminal Annals, Part 76 – Hanging at Yankee Jim’s
People sometimes ask if El Dorado County was the only place where people seemed to be hanged by vigilante committees. For a period of time in the early days of the Gold Rush, El Dorado County was the most populated…