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In addition to the Yokuts, Savage also established amicable relations with the nearby Chowchilla tribe, befriending their chief, Jose-Juarez. Due to his significant standing within the Native American community of California's Central Valley and the surrounding Sierras, the Indians trusted Savage to broker the trade of gold and goods on their ...
A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune. Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia , Greece , New Zealand , Brazil , Chile , South Africa , the United States , and Canada while smaller ...
California Gold Rush (4 C, 118 P) G. Georgia Gold Rush (11 P) K. Klondike Gold Rush (3 C, 59 P) Pages in category "American gold rushes"
The Gold Rush began in earnest in 1849, which led to its eager participants being called "49ers," and within two years of James Marshall's discovery at Sutter's Mill, 90,000 people flocked to ...
The Oakland Tribune review also noted Wharton's claim that the Alaska Gold Rushes, as well as the earlier Klondike Gold Rush, were the "end of an era of independent individualism". [ 1 ] In a 1992 review of Wharton's later book, They Don't Speak Russian in Sitka , Jo McMeen of the Huntingdon Daily News described it as much less "stimulating ...
Newspapers began to print stories of the findings, starting the Pike's Peak Gold Rush. In early 1859, Russell was drawn to the mountains by the discovery of gold in nearby Gregory Gulch. He discovered placer gold deposits in June 1859 in the valley that was soon named Russell Gulch in his honor. By the end of September, 891 men were mining gold ...
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.
Police have arrested a woman who they say kidnapped her own children from a Virginia bus stop on Thursday, triggering an Amber Alert. The Augusta County Sheriff's Office said late Thursday that ...