His eighteen sixty-six painting "Yosemite Valley" gave many people on the East Coast their first introduction to California's beautiful mountain area.

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Spain had made the first move toward peace after its forces surrendered at Santiago, on the Cuban coast.

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The first thing a passenger sees on the Cape May coast is the area's famous lighthouse.

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In 1984, he was picked to run Houston Natural Gas and engineered a merger with a rival firm in Nebraska to create Enron, which owned the first coast-to-coast pipeline network.

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The franchise, to be run under the name First West Coast Limited, would run until 2026.

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His grandfather, a former U.S. Army general, opened the first West Coast firm in 1958.

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