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The Brother Jonathan

...that U.S. Route 50 in California was the route traveled by many '49ers and the Pony Express, and later became California's first state highway and a branch of the Lincoln Highway?
...that California Mule Deer have had their population controlled by humans starting in 12,000 BCE by indigenous Native Americans?
...that when the Brother Jonathan (pictured) sank off the coast of California in 1856, it was the worst shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the United States at the time?

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