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Tolchin was born in Brooklyn.He attended the University of Utah and New York Law School, and was in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. [2] He stated in his memoir that he was prevented from practising law whilst in the army because he refused to reveal the identities of classmates who, like him, studied Marxism while at high school. [3]
An encampment of tents and covered wagons on the Humboldt River in Nevada, 1859. During the 1840s there was a dramatic increase in settlers leaving the east to resettle in the Oregon Territory or California, which at the time were accessible only by a very long sea voyage or a daunting overland journey.