The California Gold Rush
For many people, when they think of the Wild West, they think of the Gold Rush. But the thing is, there wasn’t just the one gold rush, but rather several separate, sometimes overlapping rushes to different locations where gold had been found in large quantities: the Georgia Gold Rush, the Colorado Gold Rush (aka the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush), the California Gold Rush, the Klondike Gold Rush. And that’s just a few of them.
The California Gold Rush started with a whisper in early 1848, when James W. Marshal, a carpenter at Sutter’s Mill (a sawmill being built in Coloma) found traces of gold. Read the rest of this entry »
