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Cultural/Historical ContextLabel
“ [My parents] came to S.F. on the steamer Golden Age. Father had told mother of the beautiful Golden Gate as the entrance to the harbor. Mother was up at six o'clock to see the gate open and was very much disappointed at its real appearance. After mother's arrival at the ranch, now Glenn Ranch in Colusa County, she could hardly be reconciled to the surroundings. The nearest neighbor was twenty miles away and there was no church. Father purchased a side saddle, the first one seen in the county, and mother used to ride to Colusa often.
Mother has in her possession a feather bed made of the feathers of wild geese that had been trapped by the Indians. They caught them in nets on the beautiful plains of Colusa. ”
Mary Riley Coghlan
born in Princetown [sic], California