California Gold Rush

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The California Gold Rush was a period of approximately eight years (C.E.1848 - 1856) that began in January C.E.1848 after the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, near Coloma, east of Sacramento, in what is now the state of California (United States). The news spread quickly and attracted more than 300,000 adventurers, Americans and foreigners, to California.

H.W. Brands

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He crossed the whole country to reach the Great West,
Equipped with an old fute, a big bag and a jacket,
He considers himself an adventurer, rightly or wrongly,
He is among many others a simple gold prospector.

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Didier Latapie

Citation: The global craze caused by California's gold is pyramidal, almost supernatural. It is still very much alive today. It is the most important and astonishing voluntary population movement since the Crusades. [...] Nowhere else did the discovery of precious metals trigger such an extraordinary and universal rush.
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Jacques Plante

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Hold on to the wave, hold on to the wind.
Hoist and ho, Santiano!
If God always wants straight ahead, we will go to San Francisco.
It is said that money flows freely there.
Hoist and ho, Santiano!
Gold is found at the bottom of streams.
I will bring back several ingots.

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Garcia Ordoñez de Montalvo

Citation: Know that, on the right hand of the Indies very close to the earthly paradise, there is an island called California, made up of the largest rocks ever seen. This island was inhabited by robust black women with warm hearts, gifted with great strength, who lived almost like Amazons without a single man among them [...] Their weapons were entirely of gold. The island everywhere abounded in gold and precious stones, and no other metal was found there [...].
The fabulous story of the gold rush [California - 19th century]

Footnote

^A New Jersey native, Marshall came to California in C.E.1844, worked for John Sutter, and began farming. In C.E.1846, he fought against Mokelumne Indians and participated in the Bear Flag Revolt (an attempt to claim California as an independent republic). He then joined John C. Frémont's California Battalion, followed by further military service. When he returned to Sutter's Fort, most of his livestock had vanished.
^The gold hunter is loaded down with every conceivable appliance, much of which would be useless in California. The prospector says (in a caption on some versions): "I am sorry I did not follow the advice of Granny and go around the Horn, through the Straights, or by Chagres [Panama]."

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