A former Bidwell Mansion tour guide presented a 90-minute talk titled “John Bidwell’s Involvement in U.S. and California ...

made his own strike further north in an area that became known as Bidwell's Bar. The land was so rich with gold that one miner later built a three-story mansion with his profits and still had ...

A Chico man who set fire to what some call the city’s “jewel” received the maximum prison sentence and now owes more than $37.4 million in restitution for destroying the historic Bidwell ...