COLORFUL CHARACTERS OF THE GOLD RUSH ERA

12926

3 Nights

Dbl $490 / Sgl +$120

Discover a West you only thought you knew. Now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Nevada City was once a wild and woolly boomtown of gambling parlors, brothels, opium dens, saloons and 300 newcomers a day. Hear fascinating, hilarious, tragic and tragicomic tales of the fistfights, gunfights, claim-jumping and murder that were commonplace among the soiled doves, gamblers, gunslingers, lawmen and lawless lured by the prospect of sudden wealth. Visit the transportation museum and mining museums.

Dates: Oct 3-6, 2010

NEVADA CITY’S VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS

13350

3 Nights

Dbl $490 / Sgl +$135

Join in the celebrations of Nevada City’s colorful Victorian Christmas and experience firsthand the charm of an earlier era. With the town’s landmark historic district closed to motorized traffic, costumed characters such as Victorian singers, bagpipers and brass bands re-create the scenes of another time and place, and friendly street vendors enhance your journey into the past. Classes investigate the town’s lively history with tales of the common folk - soiled doves, gamblers, gunslingers, lawmen and lawless - as well as the now-famous who populated the area during California’s Gold Rush era.

Dates: Dec 13-16, 2010