His ambitions had him quit his job, pick up his family, and move to Texas to work on his music. Selena takes the time to ask Marcella on how she knew Abraham was “the one.” Marcella tells Selena and Suzette that Abraham was very talented and had a red convertible back in 1963. Suzette almost slips on how she got a man on her mind as the guys talk about cars and getting girls. She can’t keep sneaking around and wants to tell people, but they both know it won’t work out.
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I sure do hope so.Ĭhris finds Selena stressing after the performance. Who knows what Selena was thinking and can someone tell the girl to stop taking looks at Chris while she performs? After they perform, Johnny takes the time to talk to Selena about her career and where they are going, while she mentions that their next project will be an English record. Selena and the band are back on Johnny Canales with new outfits that are basically cow hides with sparkle. Bill is taking care of his nephews as their parents recover from a car accident. There are definitely some sparks between the two.
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Suzette hits the road with band member Rod to the mall, but the two make a quick stop at the home of his friend Bill Arriaga (Christian Escobar) home. Being friends seems to be hard for the two of them because they share a kiss that is interrupted, but not seen, by Suzette. When Selena goes inside to get tissues, no one notices when Chris goes in to check up on her. Selena gets a little teary-eyed and thanks her father for all he has done. The band celebrates the award by having a BBQ and popping champagne. Jose surprises Selena, Abraham, and Suzette with a new gold record to hang up on the wall. Even with the bit of dye on her neck, the album cover looks great.ġ991 San Antonio, Texas, Selena is on the set of her first music video for “Buenos Amigos.” While she sings, we get flashbacks of her little affair with Chris, clearly implying that this is who she was thinking of while performing. Problem is, there is a shoot the next day. Who hasn’t made a hair decision over a boy? When she gets home, she initially is upset over it but her parents and sister love it. With an estimated 140,000 emigrants arriving in California via the California Trail between 18, routes were continually modified, tested or even abandoned.Selena hits the salon and gets a short haircut. Many new routes were opened into California as a result of the Gold Rush. But now the pioneers' lust for wealth was threatening to decimate the Indians through the consumption of foods, lands, water and space. For centuries, Indians had lived in the West without outside competition for resources. Indians in particular suffered from the "Forty-Niners" who streamed across the land. Grass and clean water became scarcer as the trip wore on, and diseases like cholera took their toll. But conditions were harsh at best and many livestock were lost along the way. But by the spring of 1849, the largest migration (25,000 that year alone) in American history was already taking place.īetter-than-average conditions on the plains and in the desert that spring and summer helped soften the blow of the wave of emigrants. But it wasn't until December of 1848 that President James Polk confirmed the findings to Congress, which meant it was too late to start a trip for easterners. Many who already had arrived in California or Oregon immediately gravitated to the western Sierras. Both Marshall and Sutter tried to keep things quiet, but soon word leaked out.
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Marshall discovered a gold nugget on January 24, 1848, while at the sawmill. Marshall decided to build a sawmill on the South Fork of the American river, about 40 miles from Sutter's home. When he needed lumber in early 1848, he assigned the task to one of his men, James Marshall. John Sutter was a Swiss immigrant who came to California in 1839 with a dream of building an agricultural empire. Within a year of its discovery, emigrants using the California Trail were flooding into the Sierra Nevada Range by the thousands. "I reached my hand down and picked it up it made my heart thump, for I was certain it was gold." - James Marshall, 1848Īt a time when restless Americans were already itching to go west, the discovery of gold in California in 1848 was like gasoline on a fire.