California Gold Rush

California went through one of the most rapid evolutions in the 1850’s thanks to the California Gold Rush. Around this time is when California began to rise to one of the biggest industrial competitors in the world. With the Gold Rush also came this switch from small independent prospectors, to large industrial businesses. Its land resources were starting to be explored and exploited by early Anglo-Americans for its rich potential. Its here in Mining California: An Ecological History by Andrew…

Gold has been around for many years, but when did it become a big deal and where do we find this elusive mineral? “People in California figured gold was there, but it was James W. Marshall on January 24, 1848, who saw something shiny in Sutter Creek near Coloma, California. Another builder, James S. Brown, heard Marshall say, "Boys, I have got her now." Brown stepped over to Marshall, who held his hat in his hand. There in the hat were 10 or 12 pieces of gold.’’ (americaslibrary.gov) You can…

Gold, legends are made about it, especially the legend of El Dorado in which massive riches slathered the city. The Gold Rush of 1849 is also a notable for the vast migration to gain fortunes in a land of golden dreams. While these legendary stories did not garner vast fortunes for its explorers, gold will always create mystery and allure while the pragmatists—or realists—mining for gold maintain a respect for the land not simply a source for wealth. For instance, Witwatersrand Basin located in…

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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…

Gold has served as a sort of international monetary system dating all the way back to the first forms of trade and bartering. Gold has and will continue to have a profound impact on the world currencies (Allen). Recognizing the importance of gold people have been quick to collect as much gold as possible, as shown as the California Gold Rush. Before the gold rush in the West, South Carolina was home to one of the largest gold mines in the Southeast, Haile Gold Mine. Gold mining at Haile has…

Jack London, pseudonym of John Griffith Chaney (born January 12, 1876, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died November 22, 1916, Glen Ellen, California), American novelist and short-story writer whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. He is one of the most extensively translated of American authors. Deserted by his father, a roving astrologer, London was raised in Oakland, California, by his spiritualist mother and his stepfather, whose surname, London, he took. At…

When gold was sighted the Klondike Gold Rush Started. It unfolded in the Yukon and Alaska as a brief but amazing adventure, which has harnessed the imagination of people around the world ever since. The Klondike was a big hordes of people coming down to mine for gold. By a guess about 100,000 people wanted to make it to the Klondike hotspots to mine for gold, but only about 30,000 to 40,000 actually made it. Many other lost their lives on the way. The gold rush formed the uprising for the…

“Dream” that America believed in. Things such as the Gold Rush, Manifest Destiny, and even the people of the north pushing for equality. All of these are prime examples, in which exemplify and state the existence of the American Dream, and how it is still abided by today. The Gold Rush of 1849 was one of the few main parts of the American Dream, and was a common reason in which people all over the world moved west. When gold was founded in California, people saw it as a good thing, in which…

about a proud, overweening dog named Buck. The setting of the story appeared in 1897 during the Klondike Gold Rush, when people from all places were heading to the Northland in hopes of striking it rich. Unfortunately for Buck, he classified as the variety of dog people were looking for to pull their dogsleds. As a result, Manuel, a gardener, abducted Buck from his sun-kissed home in California and entered him into the harsh, snowy Yukon environment. The theme of power of the primitive appeared…