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The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. [1] The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. [2]
Relates how a series of letters, written by a woman known as Dame Shirley and published in a San Francisco magazine in 1854 and 1855, were instrumental in inciting the California gold rush.
Deadly Cold! And the Amazing True Adventures of Jack London in the Wild. In 1897, the California native went to the frozen North looking for gold. What he found instead was the great American...
The book depicts five men, one of whom being an English Lord (Lord Luton), who journey from Great Britain through Canada to Dawson, Yukon in 1897-99 to participate in the Klondike gold rush.
Literature of the Gold Rush. Of the tens of thousands of men and women who rushed to the Klondike gold fields, some who returned empty-handed sought to tell their tales in writing. A number of stampeder autobiographies appeared over the next few decades, while hundreds of newspapers and magazines chronicled returning stampeders' stories.
12 Ιουν 2006 · On May 3, 1890, a monument of the man whose discovery unleashed the force and fury of the California Gold Rush was officially dedicated with an elaborate program attended by thousands. The statue shows the former carpenter pointing at the spot where he allegedly found the first flakes of gold.
