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Peace River Gold Rush, 1861 (a.k.a. Finlay Gold Rush) Stikine Gold Rush, 1861 The Finlay and Peace-Finlay Gold Rushes prompted the declaration of the Stickeen Territories, which lay north of the colony's boundary, the line of the Nass and Finlay Rivers, extending to the 62nd parallel, west of the Rockies. Shuswap Gold Rush (Spallumcheen River)
Lawson's map of the Gold Regions is the first map to accurately depict California's Gold Regions. Issued in January 1849, at the beginning of the California gold rush, Lawson's map was produced specifically for prospectors and miners. A Correct Map of the Bay of San Francisco and the Gold Region from actual Survey June 20th. 1849 for J.J. Jarves.
The Californian Gold Rush of 1849. Many of the 'Forty niners' crossed the United States from the east to the Gold fields of California in 'Conestoga' wagons, broad wheeled vehicles with canvas ...
After the California Gold Rush started developing a market for fresh fish, many Azorean-Portuguese turned from gold mining to fishing. Fisherman established several small fishing communities up and down the California coast selling fish in towns and cities from San Diego to Eureka.
The Age of Gold: The California gold rush and the New American Dream. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385502160. Burchell, Robert A. "The Loss of a Reputation; or, The Image of California in Britain before 1875", California Historical Quarterly 53 (Summer 1974): 115–130, stories about Gold Rush lawlessness slowing immigration for two decades
The California Gold Rush marked the first time that the search for gold was not tightly controlled by the government. By the summer of 1848, some of the first prospectors were already striking it ...
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 Gold Country (also known as Mother Lode Country) is a historic region in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California, that is primarily on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada. It is famed for the mineral deposits and gold mines that attracted waves of immigrants, known as the 49ers , during the 1849 California gold rush .