Fremont Peak
It’s hard to say who treated the Native Californians worse, the Spanish missionaries who enslaved them in the name of converting them to christianity or the later American settlers who embarked on a program of systematic genocide without the cover of religion. This weekend we stopped at Fremont Peak State Park, where in 1846 Fremont first raised an American flag in an attempt to claim California for America before being chased off by the Mexicans who owned it at the…