The california gold rush began in 1849, but when the people first found the gold in Sacramento Valley it was 1848. Some people think that the American’s found gold the first but Mexican’s were actually the first to discover it. The gold didn’t really have value on its own. Many people, mostly men, died for looking for gold. These men were called gold miners and they’d travel by land or by sea. There was a total of two billion worth of gold that was taken from California in 1852. A man named James William Marshall, he was a carpenter from New Jersey, and he found little amounts of gold in the American river. The miners removed 750,000 pounds of gold during the gold rush. Marshall and another man with the last name Sutter discovered the
