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January 2025
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“Seventeen dead bodies were found on one road alone within the last four months and no clue to the perpetrators of this wholesale slaughter has as yet been discovered. California is yet sadly wanting in an effective judicial and constabulary organization…”

— Letter from n former New York siliooltenclicr Io Ins brother, dated Feather River, March, 1852 .

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