"Be it murder or treason, oh, what a great crime,
To drown poor Naomi and leave her behind."

[Naomi Wise]

"The prophets old, they foretold,
Of a city to come all made with gold.
Peradventure they saw the day
Now dawning in Californi-ay."

[Banks of the Sacramento; the Hutchinson Family Singers, 1850]



Bob Clayton