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Like many get-rich-quick quests, the California gold rush caused a wave of destruction. During the peak years of the gold rush, the population of indigenous people in California dropped from some ...
An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848 unleashed the largest migration in United States history and drew people from a dozen ...
With gold prices at record highs, jewelry collectors are in meltdown mode. For weeks, they’ve been scouring their homes and ...
"The post-gold rush era was the most dangerous time in our history to be a California Indian. Most people did not survive it," Lim said. Greed for gold in California was pushed through violent ...
“In California, the scholarship is longstanding about the Gold Rush, and now moving it into K-12, that’s a little newer, but ...
Digital technology has interconnected people and services, but  global governance driven by mercantilist interests have led ...
Scores of hard-core prospectors work the San Gabriel, and perhaps 50,000 people throughout the ... a historian and author of Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation.
An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848 unleashed the largest migration in United States history and drew people from a dozen ...