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The Black Hills gold rush took place in Dakota Territory in the United States.It began in 1874 following the Custer Expedition and reached a peak in 1876–77.. Rumors and poorly documented reports of gold in the Black Hills go back to the early 19th century.
George Hearst (September 3, 1820 – February 28, 1891) was an American businessman, politician, and patriarch of the Hearst business dynasty.After growing up on a small farm in Missouri, he founded many mining operations, and is known for developing and expanding the Homestake Mine in the late 1870s in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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.
Moses Logan Rodgers (c. 1835–October 22, 1900) [1] was an African American pioneer of California, arriving in 1849, during the California Gold Rush. Biography [ edit ]
While in Tennessee, Lucretia heard reports about there being gold deposits in the Black Hills in Dakota territory. She joined the "Black Hills Gold Rush" and arrived in historic Deadwood Gulch, a mining camp, on June 1, 1876. [5] Securing a job, Lucretia worked as a kitchen manager in the Grand Central Hotel.
The Black Hills had been guaranteed to the Lakota Nation by the Fort Laramie Treaty, but the land was stolen for its gold. [ 4 ] A trio of mining entrepreneurs, George Hearst , Lloyd Tevis , and James Ben Ali Haggin , bought the claim from Manuel, Manuel, Engh, and Harney for $70,000 in 1877 (~$1.85 million in 2023).
The fastest clipper ships cut the travel time from New York to San Francisco from seven months to four months in the 1849 California Gold Rush. [1]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.
Gold Gulch was the largest concession stand built for visitors at the California Pacific International Exposition, a world's fair open from 1935 to 1936 in San Diego, California. Gold Gulch was a section celebrating the California gold rush and the American frontier .