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Images of the California Gold Rush ignite imaginations with visions
of hearty minors clad in floppy felt hats, red flannel shirts,
tattered Levis, and scuffed leather boots. Popular media depict
miners as a rough-and-tumble lot who diligently worked the placers
along scenic rushing rivers while living in roaring mining camps in
the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Trafzer and Hyer
destroy this mythic image by offering a collection of original
newspaper articles that describe in detail the murder, rape, and
enslavement perpetrated by those who participated in the infamous
gold rush. "It is a mercy to the Red Devils", wrote an editor of
the Chico Courier: "to exterminate them". Newspaper accounts of the
era depict both the barbarity and the nobility in human nature, but
while some protested the inhumane treatment of Native Americans,
they were not able to end the violence. Native Americans fought
back, resisting the invasion, but they could not stop the tide of
white miners and settlers. They became "strangers in a stolen
land".
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