Formerly known as the Dogtown Territorial Quarterly
The following answers to California history trivia can be found within the pages of the Dogtown Territorial Quarterly, issues #1-34 which were published from 1990 to 1998.
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Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #1, Spring 1990
Answers
1. Lumber
2. Nimshew District
3. Big Bend
4. 33 miles
5. The 54-pound Dogtown Nugget
6. 1903
7. Cherokee
8. Mining engineer
9. Oroville
10. Bidwell Bar
11. John C. Fremont
12. Jedediah Smith
13. Black Bart
14. 1500
15. An ancient gold-bearing river channel situate under the ridge Paradise sits on.
16. The Genii Mine
17. Owner of Rancho Esquon near today's Durham
18. The 900 foot-long, 14 foot-high rock wall lies under the waters of the Feather River above Oroville.
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #2, Summer 1990
Answers
1. A giant Ponderosa tree
2. An ox driver
3. By sluicing in earth from the sidehills
4. Turpentine capitol of California
5. Butte Mills
6. Honey Lake near Susanville
7. Fryer's Abietine Remedies
8. Leonard's Mill
9. 1950
10. A leaden superweight used by white miners to trade (cheat) with local Indians for gold.
11. $5,000
12. 200-250
13. He was smeared with molasses and feathers and rode out of town on a rail.
14. Train wreck.
15. Kwangtung Province in southern China
16. A sign of servitude imposed upon the Chinese when they were conquered by the Manchurians in 1644.
17. The laundry mark found on a handkerchief left by Black Bart at a stagecoach robbery in Calaveras County.
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #3, Fall 1990
Answers
1. Henry Cornell
2. I. W. "Ike" Kitchen
3. Abe Folck & Mrs. Bassett
4. Sam Neal
5. Jim Beckwourth
6. Major Frank McLaughlin blew up the huge log dam and spillway of the Golden Feather mining project which was a colossal failure.
7. He established a ranch and supply station at the foot of Pentz Road below Paradise in 1850.
8. Three weeks and it cost $2 per letter
9. William Leonard
10. 1868.
11. March 19, 1877
12. A conical-shaped lodge used by Maidu Indians
13. A bootlegger during the 20s and 30s
14. Indian offerings of baskets, beads, clothing, etc. that were burned for the spirits of the deceased.
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #4, Winter 1990
Answers
1. 89,000
2. A winter mail service in Plumas County
3. West Branch
4. Susie McDaniel's murderer
5. 697
6. Chico, 1858
7. Several members of a wagon train from Oregon that passed through Chico in 1848.
8. According to Granville Stuart it was Tom Neal in 1850.
9. Pres Longley
10. $56,500
11. Jedediah Smith
12. From a group of Cherokee Indians led by school teacher Sol Potter who first mined the Cherokee area in 1853.
13. Peter Lassen in 1844
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #5, Spring 1991
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1. 50 pounds
2. Placerville
3. 22,193 acres
4. Benton City
5. Stage stop
6. Joe Zumwalt
7. Whiskey Flat
8. Every May
9. Spring of 1853
10. Every June
11. La Porte
12. Peter Lassen
13. Every April
14. Indian Valley
15. It burned twice
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #6, Summer 1991
Answers
1. 43
2. Sam Neal
3. Senator Benton
4. Adam
5. Smith H. Hurles
6. Butte Creek
7. 1839
8. John Bidwell
9. Archibald Gillespie
10. No one. William B. Ide was the "Commander."
11. Coloma
12. First woman hung in California
13. John Bidwell
14. Sandwich Islands
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #7, Fall 1991
Answers
1. Long's Bar
2. Nancy Kelsey
3. Monroeville
4. Mormon Church
5. Fanny
6. Kennedy
7. 69
8. Mary Todd Lincoln
9. Charles Taylor
10. 9 gallons per minute
11. Ezekiel Merritt
12. Carl Wheat
13. Pnuemonia
14. Arroyo Chico
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #8, Winter 1991
Answers
1. He was hanged
2. Female academy
3. Crossette
4. Three
5. John Bendle
6. 1855
7. 1,500
8. Circus
9. 1882
10. Fremont House
11. W. T. (Willie) Fink
12. 1932
13. Moses Bean
14. 1851
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #9, Spring 1992
Answers
1. $116,800
2. Emperor Tung Chi
3. Hall and Crandall
4. San Quentin
5. 1850
6. Skeleton
7. Every April
8. Civil War
9. Fort Laramie
10. 1864
11. Over 150
12. 1911
13. Every May
14. 1854
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #10, Summer 1992
Answers
1. Governor Alvarado
2. Louis Vasquez
3. South Fork
4. Lake Lahonton
5. Fibers for brushes
6. Lassen Meadows
7. 1961
8. 1856
9. Brazil
10. James Reed
11. New Helvetia
12. $30,000
13. Magic
14. Issac Ketchum
15. Tempa Folck
16. John Bidwell
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #11, Fall 1992
Answers
1. One year
2. Truckee
3. Schallenberger
4. Johnson's Ranch
5. Harlan Party
6. Hastings
7. Red Bluff
8. Adopted Indian
9. ECV Chapter 7/11
10. September 1856
11. November 1960
12. 45
13. July 1863
14. 1911
15. Beckwourth
16. "Unrevised."
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #12, Winter 1992
Answers
1. Mary Murphy
2. Bloody Island
3. Manuel Vaca
4. Governor Micheltorena
5. Ishi
6. Bear skin
7. Wales
8. Abraham Dibble
9. 1914
10. Sandy Young
11. William Dickey
12. William Johnson
13. Aguas Nieves
14. Thomas O. Larkin
15. Josiah Beldon
16. Dr. Hugh Glenn
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #13, Spring 1993
Special California Bear Flag Revolt Issue
Answers
1. Merritt
2. Gillespie
3. Arce
4. William Todd
5. Commander
6. Valley Miwoks
7. A large tent
8. June 14, 1846
9. Dr. Robert Semple
10. June 15thy to July 9, 1846
11. Padilla and Carillo
12. 1844
13. P. B. Reading
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #14, Summer 1993
Answers
1. 1833
2. 1873
3. Camp Hollenbush
4. Padilla & Carillo
5. Semple
6. June 25, 1846
7. Kit Carson
8. July 8, 1846
9. 1850
10. Deer and Mill creeks
11. 1849-1852
12. Curtis Bancroft
13. Banker
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #15, Fall 1993
Answers
1. John Bidwell
2. Steep Hollow
3. Captain or leader
4. Slaughter House Ravine
5. 24
6. George Dawson
7. Angel's Island
8. Tuscan formation
9. 500 A.D.
10. Zamarano
11. 3 tons
12. By hanging
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #16, Winter 1993
Answers
1. Carpenter
2. 1845
3. Caleb Greenwood
4. Lieutenant Ford
5. Tustin
6. Stephen Cooper
7. Californian - March 15, 1848
8. Stephen Cooper
9. Gold Rush
10. Jefferson Davis
11. 1914
12. District Attorney
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #17, Spring 1994
Special California Gold Rush Issue
Answers
1. January 19, 1848
2. P. B. Reading
3. John Bidwell
4. Lassen Trail
5. 25 million ouces
6. Feather River
7. Peter Burnett
8. Robert Semple
9. 1850, Hangtown
10. Caleb Greenwood
11. Robert Semple
12. September 1850
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #18, Summer 1994
Answers
1. Caleb Greenwood
2. "All right"
3. William B. Ide
4. Lieutenant Missroon
5. Mormon militia
6. John D. Lee
7. February 26, 1864
8. King George IV
9. James O'Neill
10. April 1859
11. Railroad robbery
12. None
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #19, Fall 1994
Answers
1. Oregon
2. Grizzly bear
3. Central building
4. John Bidwell
5. Montezuma
6. It burned
7. San Francisco harbor
8. John August Sutter, Jr.
9. Native Sons of the Golden West
10. Cayman alligators
11. Miwok
12. Mariano Vallejo
13. November 25, 1844
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #20, Winter 1994
Answers
1. No one
2. Huge watery potato
3. At least 134
4. Reuel Gridley
5. None
6. April 1965
7. John C. Fremont
8. May 29, 1864
9. Mark Twain
10. William B. Ide
11. Tehama, Glenn and Colusa counties
12. $275,000
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #21, Spring 1995
Answers
1. 30
2. Grant and Sherman
3. Teddy Roosevelt
4. Flood
5. William B. Ide
6. William B. Ide
7. No one
8. Oroville
9. He died
10. U. S. Mint
11. Annie Bidwell
12. Hudson's Bay Company
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #22, Summer 1995
Answers
1. They mined at Murderer's Bar
2. Eight years
3. Kientpoos
4. A lime encrustation
5. 1863
6. Canby
7. Indians were hanged
8. 1825
9. Knight's Ferry
10. Webber Creek
11. Grain separator
12. Colusi County
13. It was a sign of mourning
14. Bridgeport
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #23, Fall 1995
Answers
1. 60
2. Helen Hunt Jackson
3. Cahuilla
4. The year 2000
5. He was underage
6. 21 years
7. Juan stole his horses
8. 1923
9. R. A. Thompson
10. James Adams' bear cubs
11. Seth Kinman
12. William Baldridge
13. No
14. 21 years-old
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #24, Winter 1995
Answers
1. Father MacNamara
2. Gold
3. Captain Jack
4. San Francisco
5. Glaciers & erosion
6. Clarence King
7. Placerita Canyon
8. 1851
9. Theodor Hatweg
10. 750
11. Josiah Whitney
12. William Brewer
13. Mountains
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #25, Spring 1996
Answers
1. James Hutchings
2. Rice
3. April 17, 1873
4. Henry Bellows
5. Josiah Whitney's assistants
6. By glaciers
7. 1828 Silver Franc
8. General Sherman
9. Clarence King
10. Fairchild Ranch
11. Josiah Whitney
12. June 1, 1873
13. He resigned
14. $1,234,000
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #26, Summer 1996
Special Donner Party Issue
Answers
1. Captain John Sutter
2. Cady & Stone
3. San Jose Mission
4. Fixing an axle
5. Sutter's Fort
6. Jacques La Ramee
7. James Clyman
8. Telescope
9. Johnson's Ranch
10. 11 years-old
11. Mr. Foster
12. McGlashan
13. Mary Murphy
14. He was decapitated
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly, Issue #27, Fall 1996
Answers
1. A prison ship
2. Abdon Levia
3. Hot Stuff
4. Governor Pacheco
5. Professional
6. Madame Moustache
7. Stephens & O'Mahoney
8. An Irish republic
9. Civil War veterans
10. Greek George's
11. An earthquake
12. Thirteen
13. He abandoned her
14. Mining equipment
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #28, Winter 1996
Answers
1. Jedediah Smith
2. Buenaventura
3. Comanches
4. Germany
5. 400
6. Poker
7. Twenty-One
8. John O'Neill
9. Defeasibility of Allegiance
10. 110
11. Mount Joseph
12. Dice
13. 2-3,000
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #29, Spring 1997
Answers
1. Mariano Vallejo
2. Pedro Fages
3. Yerba Buena
4. Katie & Maggie Fox
5. 1859
6. Emma Hardinge
7. Clara Shortridge Foltz
8. Reverend Oliver Fitzgerald
9. The King's Highway
10. June 3, 1770
11. Pedro Fages
12. Father Serra
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #30, Summer 1997
Answers
1. Pedro Fages
2. Tulares Valley
3. Killed by a Grizzly bear
4. Commissioner Manypenny
5. August 10, 1854
6. An Earthquake
7. October 8, 1860
8. September 11, 1864
9. John Searls
10. Phineas Banning
11. The Old Road
12. By telegraph
13. Pittsburg, California
14. Fungal spores
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #31, Fall 1997
Answers
1. Manuel Armijo
2. Governor Echeandia
3. Ewing Young
4. Kit Carson
5. Old Spanish Trail
6. 100
7. Almira Wade
8. Took a shortcut
9. David S. Terry
10. October 1861
11.March 15, 1863
12. The army
13. April 15, 1865
14. Ballot
15. James Donaldson
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #32, Winter 1997
Answers
1. 1st Lt. Thomas Castor
2. No
3. General Wool
4. Samuel Bishop
5. Post trader
6. October 1860
7. Captain Moses McLaughlin
8. January 9, 1857
9. 12 years
10. Henry Hamilton
11. 400,000
12. Henry D. Barrows
13. Civil War
14. Sgt. Edward Powell
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #33, Spring 1998
Answers
1. Fred Eaton
2. 1913
3. March 12, 1928
4. August 1861
5. September 11, 1861
6. Josiah Whitney
7. University of Wisconsin
8. John Muir
9. Professor Joseph LeConte
10. Juan Cabrillo
11. Over 1,000
12. Kodiak hunters
13. 1853
14. U. S. Navy
Dogtown Territorial Quarterly Issue #34, Summer 1998
Answers
1. Light frame house
2. Montana
3. Stoddard or Stoddart
4. 1850
5. 1855
6. 601
7. Columbian Exposition
8. It burned
9. 1937
10. 1889
11. University of Santa Clara
12. Central Pacific Railroad
13. Professor Lowe
14. Wind
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