Dec 23  Yearning for Knowledge and Life Adventures
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 2016-12-23

Sam Jones presents today's Natchez History Minute about Rufus F. Learned who was born in December, 1834 in Jackson, MS.  Learned caught gold rush fever and went to California in 1850, pressed on to the gold fields of Australia and operated a schooner in the South China Seas. He returned to Natchez in 1856 and became one of the state's leading capitalists and financiers.