Peder Sather was a scribe before he emigrated from Norway to New York in 1832. There, he worked as a servant and a clerk
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The California Gold Rush began in 1848 and incited many “wagons west.” However, only half of the 300,000 gold seekers tr
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Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California
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The California Gold Rush inspired a new American dream—the “dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck.” The
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On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continen
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By 1860, twelve years after the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill, more than five thousand American blacks had made the
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