Bill Gold

From all the years originating from the 1800’s leading up to today, gold has had many uses and various ways people perceive it. In the present day gold is scrutinized as something that displays wealth and abundance. Looking back at the 1800’s it is definitely remarkable to notice the extravagant development in the usage of gold. The Klondike Gold Rush was an exceptional consequential event in history. The pursuit of gold in the Yukon evoked in 1874 with the arrival of prospectors. Amidst them…

“Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!" - Samuel Brannan yelled. This event was the California Gold Rush that occured on January 24th, 1848 to 1855. John Sutter, Samuel Brannan, and James W. Marshall were all part of this large event that made it so important today. The gold rush is a significant part of American history because it was the largest mass migration that occurred in America during that time. John Augustus Sutter, lived in Sacramento, California after a long trip from…

Gold, it’s what everyone hopes to find someday, well in California it was found. On January 24, 1848 James Marshell discovered gold in California. The word got out so people from California came in and started searching for gold, word got out to the east they wanted proof. Then the government went out to look and it was confirmed real gold. It was reported in many news papers around the country and that’s how the California Gold Rush began. Challenges faced during the California Gold Rush were…

Having the sensation of feeling rich and being the first ones to mine gold must have been amazing. During 1849, people in California began mining gold and unlike today where small amounts were found, these people were finding huge amounts of gold. This is what eventually led to the gold rush of 1849 when the largest mass of people in history began to move into California to get some gold for themselves. Many ended up leaving everything they had to go on a journey to California to get richer.…

The Alaskan a Gold Rush. It was a big deal in the late 1800s. It attracted many people all over North America from Canada to Mexico. Everyone wanted to go to Alaska just got this. It was a out burst of people. It drew a lot of attention! There we many stories and novels written about the gold rush, such as "Gold Rush Fever" or the Last Great Gold a Rush. But there are two stories by Jack London that he had written about gold in this time era. The two books that he had wrote are "the Love of…

credit cards and a car. So by the time Max graduated high school and had to be away on his own, he couldn’t comprehend his parents telling him he had to work to get by. Two weeks before going away to college, reality hit when he ran the credit card bill up 10 grand and his father had enough. Realizing they had made a huge mistake most of his son’s life, Arnold decided that for the duration of college until graduation they were only giving Max an allowance of 500 dollars a month. “How can I…

people in the United States being more willing, to broadening their views on how they make money. Mostly it would be the chance to take new risks and leaps of faith to acquire such a new way of life sustaining capabilities. This new phenomena was the Gold Rush that took the American Society by storm and made such a vast impact on its society and people. In the midst…

The Age of Exploration was a time of discovery when glory was great, gold and land was procured by the lots, and God was accepted as the sole higher power in a variety of regions. Although these seem to be a magnificent time, not all benefited from this period. A multitude of explorers had to go to great lengths to achieve these goals, including terrorizing people, which influenced others to do the same. Through the immorality of the motivations, actions, and events that occurred during the Age…

The occupants threw millions of dollars of golden treasures into the waters. Then their beloved leader, the new king, made an appearance on deck. He dived into the water, with gold dust covering his entire body. This legend supposedly dates back thousands of years. The event, called El Dorado, has evolved into a “city of gold” that many have searched for. From exploration, to descriptions, to the history of this mysterious story comes , are all things that will be included in my paper “The…

out of their own land, it was okay. It was justified, for our own selfish needs and wants. Other things were involved with Manifest Destiny, like the gold rush. January 24, 1848 was when James Wilson Marshall found flakes of gold near Coloma, California. That immediately started a gold rush, people would come over from everyone to get California gold, those people were named 49’ers. The movie Avatar is placed on a third world called Pandora. The people of that planet are Na’vi. In this…