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The California Gold Rush - The Stampede that Changed the World (Paperback)
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The California Gold Rush - The Stampede that Changed the World (Paperback)
Series: Critical Moments in American History
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In January of 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill
in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. For a year afterward, news
of this discovery spread outward from California and started a mass
migration to the gold fields. Thousands of people from the East
Coast aspiring to start new lives in California financed their
journey West on the assumption that they would be able to find
wealth. Some were successful, many were not, but they all
permanently changed the face of the American West. In this text,
Mark Eifler examines the experiences of the miners, demonstrates
how the gold rush affected the United States, and traces the
development of California and the American West in the second half
of the nineteenth century. This migration dramatically shifted
transportation systems in the US, led to a more powerful federal
role in the West, and brought about mining regulation that lasted
well into the twentieth century. Primary sources from the era and
web materials help readers comprehend what it was like for these
nineteenth-century Americans who gambled everything on the pursuit
of gold.
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