The American Rush
The American Gold Rush
The 1849 California Gold Rush was the largest voluntary migration in American history. Here is how it started, what life was like in the diggings, and the wealth and wreckage it left behind.
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The California Gold Rush of 1849
Sutter's Mill, the forty-niners, and the rush that built a state.
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The Discovery at Sutter's Mill
The January 1848 morning that lit the fuse.
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Life in the Mining Camps
Mud, inflation and gold dust in the diggings.
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What the Rush Left Behind
Statehood, dispossession, and a poisoned landscape.