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By 1860, twelve years after the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill, more than five thousand American blacks had made the
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Matthew Solomon’s study of Chaplin’s The Gold Rush (1925) provides an in-depth discussion of the film’s production and r
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The California Gold Rush began in 1848 and incited many “wagons west.” However, only half of the 300,000 gold seekers tr
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*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the gold rushes written by participants *Includes bibliographies for further re
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of
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On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continen
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Celebrating the 150th birthday of the state of California offers the opportunity to reexamine the founding of modern Cal
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The story of California's gold rush has all the aspects of a great drama. Countless characters crossed great distan
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Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California
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