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 Category:California Gold Rush - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The main article for this category is California Gold Rush.
List of people associated with the California gold rush
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 California Gold Rush   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Gold Rush handbill The California Gold Rush was a period in American history marked by mass hysteria concerning a gold discovery in Northern California.
The Gold Rush prompted considerable development in California, and sparked the building of the Panama Railway.
Like many cities of the 19th century, the infrastructures of San Francisco and other boom towns near the fields were strained by the sudden influx; leftover cigar boxes and planks served as a sidewalk, and crime became a problem, causing vigilantes to rise up and serve the populace in the absence of police.
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 California Gold Rush
California Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado sent samples to Mexico City and, in an associated report, suggested that the government send a scientific team to survey and explore to determine whether or not there might be more gold in California.
People from all walks of life from San Francisco to Los Angeles were dropping everything that they were doing to go into the mountains in search of gold.
California became a state in 1850 and slowly civilian authority was extended over the mining camps, but even then local initiative was an important element in the mines and even in the villages, towns and cities.
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 Gold Rush Exhibit - III.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
California and Its Gold Regions with a Geographical and Topographical View of the Country, its Mineral and Agricultural Resources.
Colton's map accompanied Fayette Robinson's guidebook, California and its Gold Regions.
In this map, the gold region is hand-colored in yellow.
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 Perseus Table of Contents
California as I saw it; pencillings by the way of its gold and gold diggers, and incidents of travel by land and water.
California gold; an authentic history of the first find, with the names of those interested in the discovery; published by the author, James S. Brown, Salt Lake City, Utah.
California notes (1876) is a guide for travellers, offering details of the state's weather, geology, and vegetation as well as recommended travel routes, historical notes, business statistics, and sightseeing tips for visitors to San Francisco, Stockton, Calaveras County and its mammoth trees and caves, the gold mining district, and the Yosemite Valley.
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 Hornets' Nest: 7 Industry and Commerce
For it was gold, the selection of Charlotte as a railroad junction, and the building of a network of converging highways which made Charlotte great.
Gold coins minted at Charlotte may be identified by the letter "c" and they are, of course, very scarce and valuable.
The first deposit of gold in the Charlotte branch was made by Irwin & Elms on December 4, 1837, and the total coinage during the life of the mint was $5,109,443.88.
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 California Gold Rush - Gurupedia
The California gold rush was a period in history marked by hysteria concerning a
As he predicted when he saw the gold nugget, Sutter was ruined as more and more of his agricultural workers left in search of gold and squatters invaded his land and stole his crops.
The California gold rush is generally considered to have ended in 1858, when the Colorado gold rush began.
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 Gold mining history museums.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
You will find the people and life style in Mariposa County from the Indian and Spanish periods to the infamous California Gold Rush as well as the recent past are portrayed with great authenticity.
Gold panning lessons are also available outside, and you can keep the gold that you pan ($5.00 per person).
Richard Mason’s (the Military Governor) report on the discovery of gold, and a chronology of the California gold rush.
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 California History
This is a comprehensive history of California from its discovery until the hippie movement of the 1960's.
Special attention is paid to Native Americans in California, exploration, Spanish and Mexican California, the Gold Rush, American conquest, agriculture, urban growth, labor, the depression years, the war years, and the post war years.
The author was appointed Commissioner of Immigration and Housing in California in 1939.
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 California Stem-Cell Gold Rush - Wired New York Forum
California’s scientists will be untethered in their research, while New Yorkers like Abeliovich must either rely on compromised supplies of NIH-approved stem-cell lines or pass the hat for private donations.
In 2002, the California State Legislature passed a law encouraging therapeutic cloning—a hot-button issue for the opponents of stem-cell research—which is a way to create a more genetically diverse selection of embryonic stem cells by replacing the nucleus of an egg with the nucleus of another cell.
California already had the biggest pool of private biotechnology companies and several academic medical centers, which will now compete for $300 million a year in state funds.
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 Introduction to California State Capital Sacramento Golden State Land of Milk and Honey Grape State El Dorado State
From the naming of the state in the 16th century to the California Gold Rush of 1848 and the fields of yellow poppies(official state flower) that bloom in the springtime, gold, in one form or another, has been intertwined with the history and development of California.
People who live in California or who come from California are called Californians.
The California condor, with a wingspan as long as nine feet, is also featured on the coin in a tribute to the successful repopulation of the once nearly extinct bird.
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 African American Rights During the Gold Rush Era
While the greatest part of this story is set in the eastern states of the North, the Gold Rush brought a chapter of it to California.
The Negro population of Gold Rush California was not large.
In the same year one of the major figures in Negro journalism came to California, and a Negro press was soon born again on the West Coast: Peter Bell had been associated with the Negro press in the East since its beginnings in the 1830's and was a very sophisticated and worldly journalist.
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 California Environment Information Sources
California Environmental Directory: a Guide to Organizations and Resources (Center for California Public Affairs) 1993 (ref HC 107 C23 E556) Directory of federal, state, private and university agencies and organizations that are concerned with protecting the California environment and managing its resources.
California Ocean and Coastal Environmental Access Network (CalOcean) Includes links to information on coastal access and recreation; environmental groups; flora, fauna, and habitats; land use planning; water resources, water quality monitoring; current flood conditions; road and weather conditions; tides and ocean currents; and wave, wind, and meteorological data.
List of California terrestrial natural communities based on the classification used in the Manual of California Vegetation and structured to be compatible with previous CNDDB lists.
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 Site Contents at the free Online Encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
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 Lists & Lists... Hibiscus Species, Varieties, & Cultivars ™; © 1997-1999 Lists & Lists... ™ Productions
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