The gold rush
The California Gold Rush - YouTube
The California Gold Rush brought thousands of people to the West hoping to strike it rich. Where was gold first discovered in 1848?
African Americans in the California Gold Rush (1848-1860) •
After Marshall's discovery, thousands of people came to the goldfields in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Northern California.
Gold Rush Game | U.S. Mint for Kids
Play a gold rush miner in 1850s California. Try to catch as much gold in your pan to move to the next level.
Today In History: 9 Surprising Facts About The California Gold Rush
A young carpenter named James W. Marshall found flakes of gold in a river near Coloma, California. His discovery gave birth to the Gold Rush of 1849.
Filming The Gold Rush - Charlie Chaplin
It was in every respect the most elaborate undertaking of Chaplin¹s career. For two weeks the unit shot on location at Truckee in the snow country of the Sierra ...
Californian Gold Rush - Spartacus Educational
White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water. They stole a great many horses from us, and we could not get them back because we ...
Gold Rush Sunflowers - SunflowerSelections.com
This selection flowers quickly and is covered with branches of perfectly formed orange flowers having a rich chocolate colored center disc.
The Klondike Gold Rush - Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest
The enclosed curriculum materials consist of a variety of original documents related to the Klondike gold rush and Seattle and a set of maps of the Pacific ...
January 24, 1848: The Gold Discovery in California, Gold Rush and ...
California grew so rapidly due to the gold rush that it skipped the territorial stage and immediately applied for statehood. In September 1849, ...
The Gold Rush - San Francisco Silent Film Festival
DirectorCharles Chaplin CountryUnited States Year1925 Runtime88 min CastCharles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Malcolm Waite, Georgia Hale, Henry Bergman
California Gold Rush | Ancestry® Family History Learning Hub
What's your family's California Gold Rush story? Were they miners or early business owners? See what nuggets you can discover in Ancestry® record ...
Crisis Chronicles–The California Gold Rush and the Gold Standard
That commitment anchored prices, but the large gold discovery functioned like a monetary easing by a central bank, with more gold chasing the ...
Gold Rush California and the Question of Statehood
The California Gold Rush, as it came to be called, intersected with and influenced a variety of historical and philosophical trends in 19th ...
A Brief History of the Gold Rush - Midwest Industrial Supply
On January 24, 1848, James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter from New Jersey, was working to build a water-powered sawmill on the American River near ...
Gold rushes | National Museum of Australia
The first discoveries of payable gold were at Ophir in New South Wales and then at Ballarat and Bendigo Creek in Victoria.
California Gold Rush Frequently Asked Questions - MetalDetector.com
Here are some frequently asked questions about the California Gold Rush, the equipment available, and how much gold was found during that time.
Scenes of the 1849 Californian Gold Rush showing cradling, panning, washing with a 'long tom' and hydraulic mining.
A Global History of Gold Rushes - University of California Press
A Global History of Gold Rushes brings together historians of the United States, Africa, Australasia, and the Pacific World to tell the rich story of these ...
Colorado Gold Rush | Gold Mining in Colorado
Symbolism of Pikes Peak. The Colorado Gold Rush is often referred to as the “Pikes Peak Gold Rush.” Although there was some prospecting around Pikes Peak in ...
California Gold Rush Landscapes | The Huntington
The labor required to unearth that precious metal exerted considerable wear and tear on the landscapes of California as well.