Appearances notwithstanding part 1

 A river flows out of Eden to water the garden and from there divides into four rivers. The first is named Pishon; it flows through Havilah where there is gold. The gold of this land is good. The land is also known for its sweet-scented resin and the onyx stone.

Genesis 2:10

You probably forgot about the fact the old Ghostown called Havilah, California was originally the capital city of Kern County, and to tell you the truth I actually forgot it too.

    

After a failed attempt at establishing a colony under the command of a former San Francisco newspaper editor, and self-appointed president of Baja California, General William wacko Walker, a confused teenager, and insane jackass in his own right named Asbury Harpending set up shop and he called the spot Havilah, based on the abundance of gold and onyx in biblical accounts of such a place in the book of Genesis.  

Was there gold?  Sure there was.  

In abundance?  If you say there was, but maybe it wasn't being mined in that town.

In 1859 this rich kid leaves his daddy's plantation in Kentucky to go to college, and he becomes brainwashed.  In 1860 Asbury along with a group of kids from the school he was attending ran away seeking to join the treacherous swine William Walker who was attempting to set up a pro-slavery anarcho-fascist colony in Nicaragua, sound familiar?  

Asbury was only 15 years old at the time when his party was intercepted by US federal authorities en route to join Walker's army he avoided capture and then went back home to Kentucky. 

It's a good thing he never joined Wacko Walker's Army because a coalition of Central American countries sent their armies and defeated this group of American, mostly southern, democrat pirates.  William Walker was ultimately executed by the government of Honduras in 1860. 

So where does any 0 and 1, pro-slavery rich boy from Kentucky named Asbury go to avoid being charged with starting an illegal war overseas, while simultaneously avoiding combat in the American civil war?

You guessed it, California.

To be continued...