What Can You Learn From the California Gold Rush?
The California Gold Rush of 1848 all began in January of that year when James Wilson Marshall found some pieces of glinting metal at a lumber mill where he works along the length of the American River. It was published in a newspaper; but it wasn’t until Sam Brennan, a shopkeeper, showed a bottle of gold dust as evidence in May that people started dashing for the then Mexican non-state.
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What Can You Learn From the California Gold Rush?