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Gold: the California story. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21547-8. Rawls, James J. and Orsi, Richard J. (eds.) (1999). A golden state: mining and economic development in Gold Rush California (California History Sesquicentennial Series, 2). Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
The state of California enacted a law in 1860 known as the Act for the Government and Protection of Indians making it legal to force Indigenous people into indentured servitude. It is said to have ...
The Three Californias Trilogy (also known as the Wild Shore Triptych and the Orange County Trilogy) is a book by Kim Stanley Robinson, which depict three different possible futures of Orange County, California. The books that make up the trilogy are The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast and Pacific Edge. Each of these books describes the life of young ...
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America’s Power Grid. Portfolio. Bordewich, F. M. (2013). America's Great Debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union. Simon & Schuster. Brands, H. W. (2002). The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American ...
Ed Eberstadt, a dealer in rare books, showed Holliday Swain's diary, which was part of the Yale collection. Eberstadt emphasized that it was the "most important" diary of the Gold Rush, but Holliday initially wasn't impressed with Swain's journals. After reading diaries left by other 49'ers, Holliday realized the significance of Swain's writings.
Coloma is most noted for being the site where James W. Marshall found gold in the Sierra Nevada foothills, at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848, [4] leading to the California gold rush. Coloma's population is 529. The settlement is a tourist attraction known for its ghost town and the centerpiece of the Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park.
"The speed is more than enough to put human life and infrastructure at risk," Handwerger said. MORE: California landslide appears to leave 3 multimillion-dollar homes teetering on edge of cliff
Depictions of the California Gold Rush (1848–1855) in fiction. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. [ 1 ] The sudden influx of gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy, and the sudden population increase allowed California to go rapidly to ...