CHICO AND THE RACE FOR THE WEST

Jeremy Markley is pursuing a Masters in Public Administration at Chico State. With a 21st Century perspective, he will provide a program on Chico and Northern California in the years before the discovery of California gold in 1848. He will look back at the Maidu peoples of the Chico area and the entangled interests of the Spanish, Mexicans, British, French, Russians and upstart Americans as advancing technology, imperial ambitions, and shifting cultures began to give shape to the California we know today.