Castiloga, CA - Drunken Slip

He lost his wife, his morals, his money and died forgotten and alone. But Sam Brannan will always be immortalized for naming the town of Calistoga … which turned out to be another one of his many drunken mistakes.Sam Brannan was a larger-than-life figure in San Francisco affairs: prospector, organizer, leader and one of the wealthiest men of the 1850s. So wealthy in fact that he bought land in