The production of this collection was supported by a generous grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. It captures the pioneer experience encounters between Anglo-Americans and the diverse peoples who had preceded them the transformation of the land by mining, ranching, agriculture, and urban development the often-turbulent growth of communities and cities and California's emergence as both a state and a place of uniquely American dreams. The collection covers the dramatic decades between the Gold Rush and the turn of the twentieth century.
GOLD RUSH SERIES HISTORY FULL
"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900 consists of the full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts. This incredibly detailed chronology of the California Gold Rush is made available by The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco. Here is a PBS documentary about the Gold Rush. Of the 300,000, approximately half arrived by sea and half came from the east overland on the California Trail and the Gila River trail. While gold was discovered in 1896, the Klondike was so hard to reach (the Canadian government required each potential miner to travel with a year’s worth of supplies. Let’s start with Canada’s most famous gold rush. Klondike Gold Rush (1896-99), Yukon Territory, Canada. All told, the news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. The Californian gold rush was in decline in the 1850s and had been known as the Old Gold Mountain, which led the Chinese to name the Australian gold rush, New Gold Mountain. Here are 10 gold rushes in history that deserve more attention: 10. The first to hear confirmed information of the Gold Rush were the people in Oregon, the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), and Latin America, who were the first to start flocking to the state in late 1848. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W.