California Travel Tips
Holiday Ultimatum at Gold Rush Birthplace
Published on: December 20, 2013
Photos: Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
By C. MacDonald
Coloma, CA—In the Holiday Season of 1847, Jennie Wimmer demanded respect in her job as camp cook and laundress near a sawmill construction site at the South Fork of the American River. As the only cook in camp, she got quite irritated when some workers failed to promptly answer her call to meals.
When several men were late to breakfast on Christmas morning, she had enough, and issued a blistering ultimatum that if they didn’t come on time, they’d get no breakfast!
This prompted Henry Bigler to write in his journal: “On Christmas Day in bed she swore, That she would cook for us no more, Unless we’d come at the first call, ‘For I am mistress of you all.’” Read full story>
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