Roman Lewett’s mystery began when his father’s Boston Whaler broke down as he was piloting it to a fishing spot just west of the Golden Gate Bridge. Lewett, 25, chucked the anchor overboard, and his ...

In the mid-1840's, following defeat by Britain in the ... The Chinese were met with ambiguous feelings by Californians. In 1850, San Francisco Mayor John W. Geary invited the "China Boys" to ...