Word: coloma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coloma, Calif. (pop. 561) celebrated the 100th anniversary of the discovery of gold at famed Sutter's Mill...
General William Tecumseh Sherman left a bitter record of a professional soldier's everlasting struggle to make ends meet. When he was a lieutenant he wrote: "Had it not been for the $1,500 I had made in the store at Coloma [Calif.], I could not have lived through the winter." Sherman resigned and even when the Civil War broke out hesitated to go in again because "I did not and will not volunteer for three months because I cannot throw my family on the cold charity of the world...