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2. California gold rush - Wikipedia

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   The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. [1] The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. [ 2 ]

3. J. S. Holliday - Wikipedia

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   Holliday wrote a masterly history of the California Gold Rush that capped three decades of painstaking research on the era.. Holliday's The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience, first published in 1981, is noteworthy for its innovative narrative style that blends scholarly commentary and analysis with words of the miners themselves and their families.

4. List of people associated with the California Gold Rush

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   made his fortune during the California Gold Rush, as a gold miner George Hearst: 1820–1891 Sullivan, Missouri Territory (now Missouri), U.S. businessperson, politician used slight mining knowledge from Missouri to succeed in 1850s gold rush investment Albert W. Hicks: c. 1820–1860 Foster, Rhode Island, U.S. thief, murderer, mutineer, pirate

5. Rare coin issued after the California Gold Rush sold at ...

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   The $20 double eagle was authorized after the California Gold Rush brought an abundance of gold supply, Kraljevich said. The last time this specific coin was sold was at a Stack’s auction in ...

6. The Gold Rush That Changed Everything

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   A Gold Rush was on in California. California had at that point been separated from Mexico for just more than two years, but it was not yet an American state. The California Gold Rush marked the ...

7. William L. Manly - Wikipedia

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   In 1851, Manly returned to California by the same method, arriving in San Francisco shortly after the fire of 1851 and continued in the goldfields until the fall of 1859, by which time he had saved enough money to buy land 250 acres (1.0 km 2) in the Communications Hill, San Jose area, [4] paying $16 an acre, $4,000 in all, where he planted a farm.

8. SS Winfield Scott - Wikipedia

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   SS Winfield Scott was a sidewheel steamer that transported passengers and cargo between San Francisco, California and Panama in the early 1850s, during the California Gold Rush. After entering a heavy fog off the coast of Southern California on the evening of December 1, 1853, the ship crashed into Middle Anacapa Island. All 450 passengers and ...

9. H. W. Brands - Wikipedia

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   The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream: 2002: ISBN 9780385502160: Doubleday: California Gold Rush: Presentation by Brands on The Age of Gold, September 19, 2002, C-SPAN: Woodrow Wilson: 2003: ISBN 9780805069556: Times Books: Woodrow Wilson: American Presidents series Lone Star Nation: The Epic Story of the Battle ...