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Pioneers of California will include those who emigrated to California prior to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869 . Although California was admitted to the Union in 1850, travel between California and the rest of the continental U.S. remained time consuming and dangerous. Once the Transcontinental Railroad was completed, hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens came west, mar...
'The History of California Spanish Missions '=CaliforniaMain article: Spanish missions in CaliforniaThe Missionaries as They Came and Went. Franciscans of the California missions donned gray habits, in contrast to the brown that is typically worn today.[15] The Spanish missions in California comprise a series of religious and military outposts established by Spanish Catholics of the Franciscan ...