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EPISODE · Jun 4, 2026 · 2 MIN

La Grange

from StaniStory: Change and Continuity in Stanislaus County · host McHenry Museum and Historical Society of Modesto, California

Read by Mary Lou Dieterich, the town of La Grange was settled by fifty men who came to mine for gold from France along the Tuolumne River in 1848 to 1849. A man named Bret Harte taught school near the town, and his first literary stories which were based on the area became the foundation of the Western genre in American literature. By the time the gold mining town had reached a population of 2,000, about half of its residents were Chinese immigrants.

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Read by Mary Lou Dieterich, the town of La Grange was settled by fifty men who came to mine for gold from France along the Tuolumne River in 1848 to 1849. A man named Bret Harte taught school near the town, and his first literary stories which were based on the area became the foundation of the Western genre in American literature. By the time the gold mining town had reached a population of 2,000, about half of its residents were Chinese immigrants.

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