Queens of the Mines

Queens of the Mines

Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/andreaandersin/subscribe Queens of the Mines is a women’s history podcast. Season 3 features inspiring, gallant, even audacious stories of REAL 19th Century women from the Wild West. Season 2 features women from California history while Season 1 Tells stories of women from California’s Gold Rush. Until recently, historians and the public have dismissed ”conflict history,” and focused more on the history that opposing beliefs could manage to agree on for some mutually beneficial end. Important elements that are absolutley necessary for understanding American history have sometimes been downplayed or virtually forgotten. If we do not incorporate racial and ethnic conflict in the presentation of the American experience, we will never understand how far we have come and how far we have to go. No matter how painful, we can only move forward by accepting the truth. Support the podcast by tipping via Venmo to @queensofthemines, buying the book on Amazon, or becoming a patron at www.partreon.com/queensofthemines

Episodes

Motherlode Download Sneak Peek with Sophia Kaufman

October 12, 2023 • 4 mins

The Motherlode Download starts next week! Check out this sneak peak with Sophia Kaufman and spread the word! 

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Jennie Curry & Yosemite Firefalls (From the Vault)

October 3, 2023 • 16 mins

this week, I am posting an old episode that was subscription only. I’m sorry. I caught the ‘vid. Back to regular programming next week!


In Yosemite, for thousands of years before the discovery of gold, Native Americans traveled through and inhabited the area that the Sierra Nevada’s melting snow spills dramatically over rocky cliffs on the walls into the Valley. Waterfalls that sit over three thousand feet above its floor. Th...

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To-tu-ya & the Mariposa War - Yosemite

September 19, 2023 • 46 mins

Welcome back to Queens of the Mines. This is Season 4. Yosemite.

This season of Queens of the Mines explores the making of Yosemite National Park and true stories of women who were there along the way, and women that were there before.

In this episode, I am going to tell you about To-tu-ya, who was later known as Maria Lebrado. She was part of that 5 percent and she was the last survivor born of the Ahwahneechee band that was driv...

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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - FROM THE VAULT

September 18, 2023 • 16 mins
“This is Queens of the Mines, where we discuss untold stories from the twisted roots of California. Today, we’ll be talking about Indian Boarding Schools in the US and California. We are in a time where historians and the public are no longer dismissing the “conflict history” that has been minimized or blotted out. We now have the opportunity to incorporate the racial and patriarchal experience in the presentation of American reali...
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Yosemite - Season 4

August 24, 2023 • 51 secs

Have you ever experienced the breathtaking California wilderness? Yosemite National Park is known for its giant waterfalls and granite cliffs. Boasting Giant sequoia groves, grand valley, and lakes and streams. Yosemite receives over 3.5 million visitors annually. Just before the United State’s largest migration, the California gold rush, Yosemite remains vastly untouched and was the home of 10,000 California Miwoks. 

Join me Andre...

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Luzena Wilson- Part 2 of 2 FROM THE VAULT

May 6, 2023 • 20 mins
Last Time in Luzena Wilson’s Story it was late December 1849. Luzena was serving up to 200 boarders a week in Sacramento and charging each twenty five dollars. Customers were happy to pay the high price tag for a meal prepared by Luzena Wilson, for the white woman, was a rarity. In 1850 women made up just three percent of the non-Native American population in California‘s mining region, numbering about 800 in a sea of 30,000 men. ...
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Luzena Wilson - Part 1 of 2 FROM THE VAULT

May 6, 2023 • 29 mins
Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. In the next episodes, we will hear the story of The Queen of Devotion in the California Gold Mines. Much if this story is told in the own words of this entrepreneur who knew how to capitalize on her strengths and proved that some men in the Old West would eventually tire of strong, successful women ...
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Ah Toy Part 3 of 3 FROM THE VAULT

April 26, 2023 • 27 mins
Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. In Ah Toy’s final episode, we will finish the story of the true pioneer of San Francisco’s Chinatown, Ah Toy, whose story highlights important aspects of the role the Chinese immigrants played in America’s Largest Migration, The Gold Rush. Find the Spotify Playlist - Shelter in Place/Quarantine cu...
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Ah Toy - Part 2 of 3 FROM THE VAULT

April 26, 2023 • 24 mins
Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. In Chapter Three, we will continue the story of the true pioneer of San Francisco’s Chinatown, Ah Toy, whose story highlights important aspects of the role the Chinese immigrants played in America’s Largest Migration, The Gold Rush.   Lotus “Between the graves and the city wall stood a low building...
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Ah Toy -Part 1 of 3 - FROM THE VAULT

April 26, 2023 • 28 mins
Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. These are true stories, with some of my own fabrication of descriptive details. In Chapter Three, we will hear the story of the true pioneer of San Francisco’s Chinatown, whose story highlights important aspects of the role the Chinese immigrants played in America’s Largest Migration, The Gold Rush....
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Know Their Names - FROM THE VAULT

April 19, 2023 • 28 mins
Support Queens of the Mines with a tip! Venmo- @queensofthemines CashApp $queensofthemines Paypal southernminequeen@gmail.com Queens of the Mines is a historical, non-fiction collection of the stories of Gold Rush California’s top ten women. The stories address racism, immigration, genocide, human trafficking, depression, losses, success, civil rights, the earliest profession and the dark side of show business through the lens ...
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Lotta Crabtree - FROM THE VAULT

April 12, 2023 • 40 mins
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Charley Parkhurst - The Brave Stage Driver Part 2 of 2 FROM THE VAULT

April 7, 2023 • 23 mins
In Vermont in 1812, Mary and Ebenezer Parkhurst, a young couple, had three children, Maria, Charlotte, and Charles. After the sudden death of one of the children, the couple abandoned the other two. They were sent to an orphanage in Lebanon, New Hampshire where they were raised under the care of an unkind man named Mr. Millshark. Men had a greater advantage over girls in the battle of life. Charlotte, the youngest of the two, becam...
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Charley Parkhurst - The Brave Stage Driver - Part 1 of 2 FROM THE VAULT

April 7, 2023 • 21 mins
Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. In this episode, we are taking a different approach than we have been doing. Today, we will meet one of California’s most famous Stage Drivers, and learn their fabulous story of economic self-determination, freedom of movement, and opportunity for free association. I am Andrea Anderson, This is a t...
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Juana Briones - The Founding Mother of San Francisco FROM THE VAULT

April 7, 2023 • 15 mins
Support Queens of the Mines with a tip! Venmo- @queensofthemines CashApp $queensofthemines Paypal southernminequeen@gmail.com Here is the story of a Mexican-American pioneer, healer, trailblazer, businesswoman and landowner. Her name is Doña Juana Briones de Miranda and she is the woman remembered as the ”Founding Mother of San Francisco”, for she was one of the first three settlers in Yerba Buena before it became San Francisco...
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Indentured Servitude in Sonora FROM THE VAULT

April 5, 2023 • 17 mins
Support Queens of the Mines with a tip! Venmo- @queensofthemines CashApp $queensofthemines Paypal southernminequeen@gmail.com Until february of 1850, Sonora was known as the Sonorain camp, then named Stewart, then to Sonora. The History of Tuolumne stated that according to the California blue book the word Tuolumne meant “many stone houses or caves” having a similar meaning as the word Shasta in another native tongue. I love th...
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Mary Ellen Pleasant - FROM THE VAULT

March 22, 2023 • 34 mins
Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. She was one of the richest and most powerful people in California, and she was a black woman. Known as the “mother of civil rights in California”, one of San Francisco’s most notorious madams, a savior of the downtrodden, an exploiter of the wealthy and the “Queen of Voodoo”, while breaking racial ...
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Flo, The Ghost of The Jamestown National Hotel FROM THE VAULT

March 21, 2023 • 20 mins
“We‘re all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.” ― Liam Callanan, The Cloud Atlas This bonus episode is based on the true story and occurrences from The National Hotel, that began with a love story, and ended in murder, over 120 years ago. This Story was Created From the Links Below. http://weekinweird.com/2016/12/12/meet-flo-resident-ghost-californias-historic-national-hotel/ https://www.national-hotel...
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The Occupation of Alcatraz - FROM THE VAULT

March 15, 2023 • 26 mins
Support Queens of the Mines with a tip! Venmo- @queensofthemines CashApp $queensofthemines Paypal southernminequeen@gmail.com The famed Alcatraz prison on Alcatraz Island was in operation from 1934 to 1963. For most, the thought of Alcatraz may bring up a Hollywood film or some of the most notorious criminals in America. But the island carries a different symbolism to the native coastal peoples of California. The California Ohlo...
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Freda Ehmann

March 12, 2023 • 22 mins
Olives, technically classified as a fruit, is a powerful fruit. It would benefit most people to eat around 5-10 olives a day. A rich source of powerful stuff,antioxidants, minerals and vitamins and 80 percent of the calories in an olive come from healthy fats. They are a great way to prevent cancers in today’s toxic world, and Bonus! Eating olives improves the appearance of wrinkles by a whole twenty percent! When it comes to the h...
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