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California's Gold with Huell Howser
Gold Rush Medicine
Season 10
Episode 1005
It wasn’t always pretty, and it didn’t always work, but the “doctors” of the Gold Rush did the best they could to take care of the throngs of immigrants who came to California in search of fame and fortune. Sacramento’s Sutter’s Fort is the backdrop of this adventure. Huell hears the story of how the Fort was chosen as the site of the first hospital in Sacramento.
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Huell and Luis get a behind the scenes look at this engineering marvel of Shasta Dam.
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Huell Howser accepts an invitation to spend a couple of days with the Blue Angels and ends up not o
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Huell meets up with historian Tom Macaulay, who takes him to a frozen lake in the Sierra.
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Huell visits with Mary Kageyama Nomura, known as the "Songbird of Manzanar"
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Huell visits Tuolumne Meadows inside Yosemite National Park and learns about the history.
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Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten WWII Japanese American Internment Camps.
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Huell Howser travels to the Central Coast in search of historic Nitt Witt Ridge.
