Cheryl Anne Stapp is the author of the award-winning "Disaster & Triumph: Sacramento Women, Gold Rush Through the Civil War," and "Sacramento Chronicles: A Golden Past." A graduate of California State University, Northridge, she is a member of the Sacramento and Elk Grove Historical Societies, volunteers as a docent at Sutter's Fort State Historic Park and maintains a website devoted to California history, "California's Olden Golden Days" at cherylannestapp.com.