Pike's Peak Gold Rush

California Gold Rush is arguably one of the most important events in United States history. The gold rush caused what is considered to be the largest mass migration in United States history, bringing in 300,000 people by 1855, 25% of whom were immigrants from other countries. Not only was California rich in people, it was rich in gold. Approximately 750,000 pounds, two billion dollars’ worth, of gold was extracted from the earth from the time gold was first found in 1848 to the time the rush…

Did anyone know that Cyrus Mccormick invention has created over 4.5 million loaves of bread into Chicago? Cyrus was born in February 15, 1809 and at a young age Cyrus started inventing things for agriculture. His father worked on it for 22 years and a 22 year old kid came and finished the reaper. Cyrus has started a very worldwide and international company that is still known today. Cyrus wanted to create a company that will be remembered, and Cyrus has a brilliant invention the reaper. His…

Bret Harte was a nineteenth century American author and poet. He is best remembered for his short fiction stories featuring gamblers, minors, and other figures of the California Gold Rush. Harte’s short story “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” manages to be tragic without tipping into melodrama, and rustic without tripping over its local color. It is also a balancing act between the potentially new plot of a newborn baby boys effect within an all-male wild mining community, and Harte’s method of…

The book Never Cry Wolf By: Farley Mowat came out in the 1960’s. The book is about how Mowat comes out to explore the forest of northern Canada. He calls it Wolf House Bay. Then he meets this wolf pack that he will be spying on for a couple of months. He soon gets really attached to them and starts to give them names like Lupine, Uncle Albert, Angelina, and George. Farley Mowat uses a lot of logos in his writing to persuade everybody that the wolves are not savage killers. When he made it too…

“Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!" These were the famous words shouted by Samuel Brannan that sparked the fever for riches in many. This simple seven word phrase was the beginning of the largest mass migration of immigrants from all over the world to the United States. This declaration of found treasure was the beginning of a domino effect that would have lasting consequences. This was the beginning of the California Gold Rush. On January 24, 1848, gold was accidentally dug up by…

How and Why California coast (Pacific Coast) is Eroding faster than it should and the effect of it. I chose the California Coast or the Pacific Coast as it is one of the most popular coasts in the world. California has always been in the news for various natural disasters like forest fires, earthquakes and now Coastal erosion. California is also the World’s IT capital where all the famous companies like Google, Facebook, Apple etc are located. Many Indians migrate to california for jobs.…

Geronimo (Apache chief) leads attacks into Mexico. The U.S. then places soldiers near his reservation, so Geronimo and some of his people escape to their stronghold in Mexico and build an army. Geronimo flees the reservation again when he hears rumors he is going to be arrested. Then the U.S. army sends a large force against Geronimo's 24 men. He surrenders and is sent to prison in Florida. He dies on a reservation as a prisoner of war. Little Wolf (Northern−Cheyenne chief) who helps lead a…

The California Gold Rush affected the state of California in many ways, let alone the entire country. It changed the idea of success for all the people of the nation. Before the Gold Rush, most Americans did not even think about becoming wealthy; they thought more about holding just enough land to get them by in life. Land owners and farmers wanted to keep their families independence from working for wages, so when the Gold Rush fever sparked up, people could not resist. Why work so hard with…

majorly wealthy gold mine was founded in the Superstition Mountains of Phoenix, Arizona by a man named Jacob Waltz (Bicknell 1). Waltz was a German man who had kept a gold mine a secret from the day he found it, to the day he was put six feet down in the ground. Waltz had drawn up a map filled of hints and clue of where this hidden gold mine might be located. When the map was discovered, treasure hunters from all over the world were interested and wanted a chance to go hunt for the gold (1-2).…

Jack London the writer of an amazing book called Call of the Wild. The story is about this family, and their dog got kidnapped but their gardener and this dog was named Buck. He struggles to survive as a sled dog. He goes through two owners, and he finds the one. His name was John Thornton. Unfortunately, while Buck was hunting down a moose the Indian group named the Yeehats killed John and died. And then Buck joins with a pack of wolves, and every year Buck goes back to where his beloved John…