History get’s wet in this episode of untold. The date? January 24, 1848. The place?  Along the banks of the American river in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Join us as we encounter con men, fortunes won and lost, California’s first millionaire, and an event that quite literally put California on the map. All this and … Episode 004: Ed Allen & the Morning Walk that Launched 1,000 Ships Read More »

Like a gray barnacle on the side of some big blue whale, Alcatraz sits silent and imposing amidst the whitecaps of the San Francisco Bay. And if walls could talk (On Alcatraz they do!) you would here the tale of when in 1969, American Indians occupied this famous ex-prison for 19-months in the longest lasting … Episode 003: An Occupation of Alcatraz Read More »

On October 17, 1989 a quiver ran through the spine of California’s Loma Prieta fault. What was but a tiny shift in the tectonic forces at work in the Pacific rim caused $6 billion in damage, took the lives of over 50 people, and forever altered the landscape of communities across the Bay Area. In … EPISODE 002: LOMA PRIETA AND THE SEISMIC WORLD SERIES Read More »

It will be an illiterate society indeed, that only acknowledges a past free from blemish and in that spirit this episode explores the life and times of a Californian hobo, rancher, seal hunter, an almost nobody, and later, one of the most prolific American writers of the 20th century. And there is much to discover … EPISODE 001 JACK LONDON: AN OAKLAND OYSTER PIRATE Read More »