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California's Gold with Huell Howser
Lost Sierra
Travel to Downieville, nestled high in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where gold miners organized the first ski races in the country; meet the staff on the Mountain Messenger, the state's oldest weekly newspaper; and watch a demonstration of the long, heavy wooden skis worn by the gold miners in the mid-1800s.
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Join Huell in the centennial celebration of the arrival of the first steam train to SLO.
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