The Gold Rush
"It was a clear cold morning I shall never forget," wroteJames Marshall in his diary on January 24, 1848 (as quoted in Rosalyn Schanzer's Gold Fever!). "My ey...
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The Gold Rush
The discovery of gold in the Sacramento Valley of northern California, inland from the San Francisco Bay, in 1848 marked the beginning of one of the most dramatic periods in American his...
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The Gold Rush