Pike's Peak Gold Rush

a large portion of a Mexican estate from Beatriz. Coronado became governor of the Spanish province of New Galicia and was a leading grandee. He one day received word of seven cities that were supposed to be very wealthy and the houses were made of gold. This seemed to capture Coronado’s…

Marshall. It is 1848 and the territory of California has been seen on many accounts that there is gold there. At the scene of a sawmill owned by John Sutter, James Marshall was a carpenter who does his work with no problem. While Marshall was working, he went to the nearby stream and noticed that there was some gold dust in the water. So Marshall quickly called his boss, John Sutter to where he found the gold dust. Only Marshall and Sutter were the only ones in the California region. As much as…

Wells Fargo and Company was destined to become the leading banking company of the West, after being founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo. Wells Fargo was inspired by California’s economy boom that happened after the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in the year 1849. Due to these events, Wells and Fargo along with several New York investors began to create the company we all know now as Wells Fargo that would profit from this demand. Because of California’s camps that were isolated for…

Way back then, mining was a big deal, and it still is. The first gold in Montana was found in the 1850s. But, there wasn’t a rush of miners into Montana until the strikes that happened in Bannack City. The first gold stampede that had affected the upper Flathead, was diggings in British Columbia, which happened in 1864.From the other years, back then, two men brought nuggets and gold dust, what had became known as Finlay Creek. Into the next year, many prospectors and a great paying mind had…

have benefited the community by assisting and introducing the development of an inclusive and accepting nation. GOLD FRENZY WHICH CHANGED A NATION A discovery of gold in a waterhole in Bathurst in 1851, by a man named Edward Hargraves, had a profound impact on Australia and the rest of the world. People came in their thousands from places globally hoping to strike gold…

California pursuing gold. The first man to find Californian gold was James Marshall, a carpenter building a sawmill for John Sutter on the American River. Both men agreed to keep the treasure a secret to protect their land, but newspaper and store owner Sam Brannon caught wind of the discovery. He walked up and down the streets of San Francisco with a small vial of gold telling people he had found it in the American River. By the end of 1849, less than two years after the discovery of gold, more…

The California Gold Rush of 1849 marks an important date for the settlers coming from all over the world in search of gold first found in the Sacramento Valley. The five questions and responses addressed below will explain why the gold rush was so important. How was gold found in the specific area? Why was James Marshal credited for finding the gold? Why was gold valuable to so many people? Why did the Native American population shrink in California during the gold rush? Lastly what…

with modern railroads and canals. What seemed nothing more but a land only for a handful of wealthy residents in the territory of California, will impact the country in various ways. The discovery of gold in 1848 marked the beginning of a wave foreigners and Americans to a new life. The California Gold Rush was a historical event that impacted Westward expansion, allowed a melting pot of immigrants to live the American Dream, and created the establishment of prosperous cities. During the…

discovered gold in Coloma, California in January 1848 he and the land owner tried desperately to keep it a secret. However, a newspaper called The Californian printed a note about the discovery that March. (Westward Expansion) The word spread so quickly that in 1949 around 90,000 people seeking gold flooded the area, these people were coined the “forty-niners.” Over the next few years it was estimated that 300,000 people had come to California to find gold and collect their portion. (California…

Narrative structure This book is a story about a family going on a bear hunt. Gamble and Yates (2013, p. 69) explain that narrative structure of a story contains two elements such as the story plot and how the story has been conveyed. The book started with a fiction theme of going on a journey of hunting a bear (where the events are plausible), as soon as they venture the bear, the story turns in to fantasy (Gamble & Yates, 2013, p. 80). By switching between the two genres, the author has…