Gold! Gold from the American River!: January 24, 1848: The Day the Gold Rush BeganWhen James Marshall found a small, soft shiny stone in a California stream, he knew it could only be one thing: Gold! His cry of discovery would be heard around the world. In the third installment of Don Brown's Actual Times series, Gold! Gold from the American River! is the story of the California gold rush--the uncharted journey across hostile land, the laborious process of panning for gold, the success of savvy entrepreneurs, and the fortunes of the marginalized, from slaves and American Indians to women and foreigners. |
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American Indians American River ask a dog beneath a cold Brannan California's Sierra Nevada clear January sky commenced hammering cry would find Daniel Knower DAY THE GOLD diggings dirt dog to live DON BROWN Flash Point ROARING fortune forty-niners found the pebble gold fever GOLD RUSH BEGAN gold rusher gold seekers goldfields hammered a shiny hard river stone helpers had built inspected the nearly ISTHMUS OF PANAMA JANUARY 24 John Marshall largest mass migrations Leland Stanford Marshall hammered Marshall inspected migrations in American miners Missouri River mules Nancy Gooch nearly completed mill PACIFIC OCEAN panning for gold Point ROARING BROOK Rb Flash Point remembered a simple rivers spilling ROARING BROOK PRESS rocks runoff ditch RUSH BEGAN Artual Sam Brannan San Francisco San Francisco's population shiny pebble beneath shiny stones meant spied the shiny spilling down California's Sutter Sutter's Mill THREE THE DAY toil Twenty-two million Americans VOLUME THREE wagons water-powered sawmill