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Columbia River Men in California, 1848–49.
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fornia during the mining days became the backbone of American government, and from this sprang the splendid free state.)

A circumstantial account of the beginning of state government in California is given in "Recollections of a Pioneer," Peter G. Burnett, first Governor of California, who went from Oregon to the mines in 1848.