After that, people made their way to Sutter’s land in California, driven by a lust for gold. Soldiers, farmers, and people from all walks of life came to Sutter’s land on the hope of making easy money. The gold rush began only amongst Californians, but in the summer of 1849, word reached other parts of the country and people from all over came to California for their shot at the big money. These quick “fortunes” made people spend recklessly, a “symptom” of the “gold rush disease” that the men mining for gold suffered from. The gold rush was the greatest mass movement of people in history, coming from not only all over America, but also from Canada, Mexico, and locations on various other…