Did the forty-niners find gold? Northern California's American River was the site of the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848. mostly men from the east, came from Europe, China, ...
An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush. PD. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill on January 24, 1848 unleashed the largest migration in United States history and drew people from a dozen ...
“It made my heart thump, for I was certain it was gold,” Marshall ... 100,000 by the end of 1849 and more than 250,000 by 1852. These settlers were dubbed “forty-niners” after the year ...
On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery that would forever change the trajectory of California. In a creek near the town of Coloma, a remote community wedged in the ...