{"id":18565,"date":"2014-12-11T00:48:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T08:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18565"},"modified":"2014-12-11T00:48:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T08:48:25","slug":"old-west-christmas-tales-with-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/old-west-christmas-tales-with-a-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Old West Christmas – Tales with a Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SeeCalifornia.com contributor and\u00a0historian Craig MacDonald has researched and written\u00a0factual stories from the California gold rush era, many\u00a0appearing in his\u00a0holiday book, Old West Christmas-Tales with a Twist<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

1. An Outlaw’s Christmas Eve Greeting<\/a>:\u00a0Once upon a time, All through the camp, Wasn’t a miner a-stirring, They was out like a lamp.\u00a0Their six guns were hung, By the beds with care, In case Big Red, Soon would be there.<\/p>\n

2. Santa Claus Papa<\/a>:\u00a0A widow named Mary Stewart was having a very hard time making a go of it after her husband had been killed in a mine explosion. She worked long hours washing miners’ clothes to put food on the table for her two small kids. Life was especially tough and discouraging with the approach of the first Christmas without her husband.<\/p>\n

3. Finders Keepers<\/a>:\u00a0On Christmas Eve, 1880, a sleigh carrying G.W. Green and Dan Callarner was caught in a major snowstorm on the eastern slope of the Sierra. In spite of the incredibly heavy snowfall and high winds, both men were about to witness a Christmas miracle.<\/p>\n

4. A Golden Child is Born<\/a>:\u00a0There was much optimism in California’s Mother Lode during the holiday season of 1849. Gold had been discovered a year earlier and miners were scampering to the Sierra Nevada foothills to make their fortunes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SeeCalifornia.com contributor and\u00a0historian Craig MacDonald has researched and written\u00a0factual stories from the California gold rush era, many\u00a0appearing in his\u00a0holiday book, Old West Christmas-Tales with a Twist. 1. An Outlaw’s Christmas Eve Greeting:\u00a0Once upon a time, All through the camp, Wasn’t a miner a-stirring, They was out like a lamp.\u00a0Their six guns were hung, By the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18565"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}