The Gold Rush [1 ed.] 9781502626387, 9781502626400

California became a territory in the United States when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848. That treaty

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The Gold Rush [1 ed.]
9781502626387, 9781502626400

Matthew Solomon’s study of Chaplin’s The Gold Rush (1925) provides an in-depth discussion of the film’s production and r

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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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*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the gold rushes written by participants *Includes bibliographies for further re

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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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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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Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California

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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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