December 22 Ranchos in 1844 Rancho Johnson, a 22,197-acre Mexican land grant in Yuba County, was deeded. It stretched along the Bear River, and encompassed modern Wheatland. Overland trail in 1846 Patrick Breen, traveling with the Donner Party, wrote in his diary: “Snowed all last night. Continued to snow all day with some few intermissions. Had […]