Legendary bandit Black Bart held up his first stagecoach (1875) and his last stagecoach (1883) at the exact same spot, on Funk Hill near Copperopolis.
Legendary bandit Black Bart held up his first stagecoach (1875) and his last stagecoach (1883) at the exact same spot, on Funk Hill near Copperopolis.
The first native Californian promoted to admiral in the U.S. Navy hailed from landlocked Calaveras County. Theodore Vogelgesang, born at Petersburg in 1869, was appointed rear admiral in 1922.