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| WELLS
FARGO HISTORY MUSEUM |
Within the mall
building, across from the main bank building is the Wells Fargo History
Museum, the centerpiece of which is a meticulously restored stagecoach.
These coaches served the settling of the West and the pueblo that
was L. A. in the mid-19th Century. Northern California, flush with
gold, was willing to pay high prices for cattle, which L. A.'s rancheros
possessed in abundance. With prosperity came bandits, drifters, rustlers
and hustlers, causing L. A. to be called, for a while, the "City of
the Fallen Angels." The city finally settled down as hordes of migrants
poured in when the railroads linked L. A. to the outside world. |
