Between 1831 and 1833, an estimated 15,000 Choctaw people traveled the Trail of Tears, a journey of more than 500 miles, ... and they made Mullan an honorary chief of the Choctaw Nation.

Tiburcio Vasquez grew up in a middle-class family on a land-grant awarded for his father’s military service, a ranch in the Pajaro Valley, and a Monterey townhouse,” writes ...