This story follows James Marshall as he is introduced to John Sutter, Captains Fremont and Sheridan, the famous Mormon Battalion, the ill-fated Donner party and an onslaught of prospectors as they all converge on lands occupied by Mexican rancheros, indians and a precious yellow metal.

Host Rob MacClanahan explores several sections of H W Brands book, "The Age of Gold" foreshadowing the California Gold Rush and the largest mass migration of people since medieval times.  Prepare to be entertained with the stories of historic people and an infant state, not to mention the usual compliment of music and sound candy...

This show opens with famous words that resounded from Lincoln's marble monument on August 28, 1963 and closes with the rest of Martin Luther King's speech, "I have a dream today..."   Theories struggle to characterize the extreme range of our universe from subatomic particles to supermassive black holes.  Several historic events are examined including Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Incan Empire.  And the late Glenn Frey is honored with several Eagles songs blairing across the Divide.  Mark Twain's humor harangues Arthur's court, and commencement of the European colonization of Australia is revisited, with plenty of waltzing -- Waltzing Matilda, that is, featuring Rolf Harris, Olivia Newton John, a brief interlude with Paul Hogan, and the strings of Andre Rieu are accompanied by standing patriotic Aussies, and more from down under... THE TIME TRAVELER on 95.1FM KFOK Georgetown.