is touringe, c-span cities across the country. we will look at our recent visit to chico, california next. you're watching history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3. at a placetanding that holds significance for the in thisus people here part of what we call you to county. -- prof. dizard: we're standing at a place that holds profound significance for the indigenous people here in this part of what we now call butte county. these people regard this very place as the particular location where in their cosmology the creator had humans emerge into the world. it is also alumni glenn. as far as university of california state chico is concerned. with the discovery of gold not too far south of here and the inability to keep that discovery secret, the news quickly spread. and the ratio of settlers to native people began to radically shift. prior to the gold rush, there would have been somewhere on the order of maybe under 5000 settlers in all of california. by 1855, that would have skyrocketed to above 50,000 settlers. and the rela

is touringe, c-span cities across the country. we will look at our recent visit to chico, california next. you're watching history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3.