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	Sacramento Gold Miners - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gold Miners were originally the "descendants" of the Sacramento Surge from the defunct World League of American Football.
		When the 1993 CFL season started, the Gold Miners, all-US staff, took some time to learn the intricacies of Canadian football, but the team was fortunate enough to have leadership with quarter back, David Archer and recieving great plays from wide receiver, Rod Harris.
		In addition, the Sacramento Gold Miners also entered the CFL record books by recording the most wins by an expansion team with 6 wins (record was eventually broken in 1994 by Baltimore).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sacramento_Gold_Miners (458 words)

	about_sacramento_california
		Sacramento is the county seat of Sacramento County, California and the capital of the U.S. state of California.
		During the gold rush, Sacramento was a major distribution point, a commercial and agricultural center, and a terminus for wagon trains, stagecoaches, riverboats, the telegraph, the Pony Express and the First Transcontinental Railroad.
		In 1848, when gold was discovered by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma (located some 50 miles northeast of the fort), a large number of gold-seekers came to the area, increasing the population.
	www.sanjosefurniture.com /sacramento_furniture_store/about_sacramento_california.html (2720 words)

	Sacramento Surge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sacramento Surge was a professional American football team that played in the WLAF in 1991 and 1992.
		After the WLAF ended its American presence at the end of the 1992 season, Surge owner Fred Anderson continued Sacramento's presence in professional football by acquiring a Canadian Football League expansion franchise.
		The new team was named the Sacramento Gold Miners.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sacramento_Surge (130 words)

	Part Four - No one tracked the cost in environmental damage
		The miners enlisted some natives as laborers, but most were ousted from their villages and hunting grounds.
		The Konkow and the Maidu along the Feather River, and the Nisenan and Miwok in the reaches of the American and Merced rivers suffered the highest tolls among the estimated 100,000 Indians in California who died between 1848 and 1885 as a result of starvation, violence and diseases introduced by Europeans, historians say.
		Descendants of the burros that the miners imported to haul provisions today wander wild in the California desert, frustrating the state's attempts to reintroduce bighorn sheep.
	www.calgoldrush.com /part4/04environment.html (1143 words)

	The Gold Rush: Teacher's Guide
		Gold was first discovered in California by James Marshall in early 1848.
		Although gold was easy to find at first, it quickly became an difficult enterprise that yielded less and less.
		The legacy of the Gold Rush is substantial.
	www.pbs.org /goldrush/teacher.html (551 words)

	Sacramento Convention and Visitors Bureau: ITINERARIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sacramento, after all, is the capital of California, and no visit here would be complete without a tour of the California State Capitol Museum, a working building where laws are passed for the 5th largest economy in the world.
		Sacramento's diverse ethnic and cultural background provides the most discerning visitor with an impressive variety of restaurants, extensive wine lists and wide array of art forms.
		It is the oldest remaining firehouse in Sacramento and was one of the first buildings to be restored in Old Sacramento.
	www.sacramentocvb.org /touroper/itineraries.cfm (2032 words)

	Land of Golden Dreams, Legacies of El Dorado
		Gold miners were not the only ones who found wealth.
		Those hoping for easy riches working the gold fields moved on to mining bonanzas in Canada or the silver mines in Nevada at the end of the 1850s.
		Others realized that California offered more than dreams of gold: "There is not a country on the face of the globe more highly endowed with all the elements of prosperity," noted an English traveler, "richer in precious metals, [or] richer in agricultural prospects, than California...
	www.huntington.org /Education/GoldRush/legac/leg_a.html (282 words)

	Sacramento Gold Miners- The CFL in America
		The Gold Miners were the "descendants" of the Sacramento Surge of the original World League of American Football.
		The Gold Miners were the first CFL American team and set a record their first season for most wins by a first-year CFL team (the record was broken by Baltimore in 1994).
		Attendance hovered around the 15,000 range in Sacramento, but it was widely known that as many as 2,000 of the 15,000 per game were given free tickets.
	www.oursportscentral.com /cflinamerica/sacto.htm (458 words)

	Sacramento Convention and Visitors Bureau: Sacramento CVB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		With construction beginning in 1887, Sacramentoâs Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is an amazing example of the strength and history in Sacramentoâs architecture.
		Since many of the buildings date back to the mid-1800âs, Sacramento is home to the largest concentration of buildings dating back to the Gold Rush era in the United States.
		With a recent restoration project that loops together the Catholic culture, the legacy of gold miners, visions of a vibrant downtown and the sentiments of Sacramentans who spent some of lifeâs most memorable moments within the churchâs walls, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacramento combines Sacramentoâs history with its modern day life.
	www.sacramentocvb.org /sacramentoCVB/whats_new_detail.cfm?news=47 (315 words)

	Top20Sacramento.com - Your Top20Guide to Sacramento, CA.
		Sacramento is also home to Sacramento State University, (officially, California State University at Sacramento, or CSUS), founded as Sacramento State College in 1947.
		Sacramento is also home to Fuller Theological Seminary's Sacramento campus, which is located across the street from CSUS at Fremont Presbyterian Church.
		Sacramento has a reputation as a center for Dixieland jazz, because of the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee which is held every Memorial Day weekend.
	www.top20sacramento.com (3061 words)

	Popular Music of the California Gold Rush
		The Gold Rush had its own kind of jargon; this jargon was included in the titles and lyrics of popular songs of the period.
		In the late 1850s, many gold miners were tired of hearing about other people finding gold over the years, but still finding themselves very poor.
		Many Chinese people came to California on ships for the Gold Rush, only to find that they had to work for a long time in the mines to pay back the cost of the ship passage and didn’t see any of the gold go into their own pockets.
	www.sbgmusic.com /html/teacher/reference/historical/goldrush.html (629 words)

	Hornet Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hornet Stadium is a 26,000 seat football stadium in Sacramento, California.
		It was the home stadium of the Sacramento Surge of the WLAF and the Sacramento Gold Miners of the Canadian Football League.
		The Calgary Stampeders defeated the Gold Miners 38-36.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hornet_Stadium (157 words)

	History of Early California Laws
		Many brilliant young lawyers during the early days of California were lured away temporarily by the hidden gold of mountains and tempted to play with running water and pan and rocks to obtain the glistening metal that might pave for them a pathway to success in life.
		Years before Marshall's discovery of gold, Burnett had made the covered wagon trip to the Oregon country at a time when the region was claimed by both Great Britain and the United States.
		By constitutional amendment District Courts of Appeal were established as an intermediate system, one such court sitting in Sacramento, for the northern counties; one at San Francisco for the central counties, and the third in Los Angeles for the southern district, each court having three judges.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hist3/laws.html (3419 words)

	CFL
		The Gold Miners were a part of the CFL's short lived expansion into the US market.
		When the Gold Miners entered the league, a team named the Texans was slated to play in San Antonio.
		To complicate matters however, the Gold Miners moved to San Antonio in 1995 and revived the Texans moniker.
	www.misterhabs.com /CFL.htm (1872 words)

	VZ Local - Sacramento, California City Guide
		With its new status and strategic location, Sacramento quickly prospered and became the western end of the Pony Express, and later the First Transcontinental Railroad (which began construction in Sacramento in 1863 and was financed by "The Big Four" - Mark Hopkins, Charles Crocker, Collis P. Huntington, and Leland Stanford).
		Forty miles (65 km) east of Sacramento, in the foothills, snow accumulation is an annual occurrence.
		Spots in the Sierra Nevada mountains east of Sacramento annually receive the most snowfall of any spot in the lower 48 states, and the mountain range's immense snowpack is a vital source of water for the entire state.
	www.vzlocal.com /Sacramento-CA.html (3295 words)

	Great Valley Center : Resources : Counties : Placer
		Placer County was home to the peaceful Nisenan Native Americans for hundreds of years before the discovery of gold in 1848 brought hordes of miners from around the world.
		Three years after the discovery of gold, Placer County was formed from portions of Sutter and Yuba counties Auburn as the county seat.
		Gold mining was a major industry through the 1880s, but gradually the new residents turned to farming the fertile foothill soil, harvesting timber and working for the Southern Pacific Railroad.
	www.greatvalley.org /resources/counties/placer.aspx (236 words)

	Silver and Gold - Miners at Spanish Flat
		Rudolph Lapp, the historian of Gold Rush-era fls in California, estimates that in the early 1850s, there were between 200 and 300 fls in the gold fields held as slaves.
		The census of 1850 reported that there were 962 fl persons in California, with 600-700 living in the Gold Rush counties; most of these fls came from Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts, with others coming from the slave states of the deep south.
		One scholar of the California gold mining camps has found more than 30 locations in the state with names including "nigger" or "negro." Many of these fl miners formed mutual aid associations, and some of these groups associated themselves with friendly white miners as a matter of protection and preservation.
	www.museumca.org /goldrush/silver-mineatsf.html (358 words)

	Gold Rush: teacher's guide
		Quite the contrary, the California gold rush was a world event, attracting gold-seekers from Mexico, China, Germany, France, Turkey--nearly every country in the world.
		First, gold brought people from around the world--people who stayed to form the multi-cultural nucleus of California that exists to this day.
		Before the gold rush, a metal pan in California cost 30 cents, but after gold was discovered, gold pans sold for 15 dollars.
	www.isu.edu /~trinmich/teacher.html (1095 words)

	Headlines/Breaking News from Sacramento Business Journal - bizjournals.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sacramento developer Ken Fahn has completed a $900,000 revamp of the historic Posey's Cottage in downtown, and the last of five new tenants, Vallejo's Restaurant, is due to move in by the end of May.
		The UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento is one of six hospitals in the nation and the only one in California to be named a "magnet nursing center of excellence" by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
		Sacramento County's Nuisance Response Team and the California Highway Patrol are conducting a sweep of illegal businesses and "nuisance" properties near Elkhorn Boulevard north of McClellan Air Force Base in North Highlands.
	sacramento.bizjournals.com /site_map/sacramento_sitemap_17.html (14797 words)

	City of Sacramento Department of Parks and Recreation
		Sacramento, September 5, 2000 - The grand finale for the City of Sacramento's yearlong celebration, Gold Rush Days 2000, was a huge success drawing more than 120,000 visitors.
		There were miners' tents, saloons, a jail, a flsmith shop, an apothecary and theatre; workers dressed in period costume; shops and saloons will sell the merchandise products and food of the period; and street dramas, musicians and story tellers will provide lively gold rush style entertainment.
		Gold Rush Days 2000 was sponsored by the 150th Anniversary Office of the City of Sacramento, Sacramento Convention and Visitors Bureau, State of California Railroad Museum, Discovery Museum and Old Sacramento Management.
	www.cityofsacramento.org /parksandrecreation/newsroom/goldrushdays-1.htm (230 words)

	Gold Is Where You Find It (1938 c 94') (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Gold miners flood wheat fields, causing a bitter economic, social, and legal battle that divides a family.
		In 1877 in the Sacramento valley gold miners flood wheat farmers.
		In court Chris argues for the injunction to protect farmers from the miners' mud.
	www.san.beck.org /MM/1938/GoldIsWhereYouFindIt.html (480 words)

	Auburn California
		As best said by local writer Tom Homer (1943-2004) - "Arriving in Auburn, California is like traveling back in time - a time when life moved just a little slower, when people appreciated a well-designed community building, and took time to say hello to their neighbors".
		Auburn is one of California’s earliest mining towns, situated in the heart of the Gold Country.
		During the Gold Rush in May of 1848, a miner by the name of Claude Chana was taking a short cut to meet his friend James Marshall and discovered gold in the Auburn Ravine.
	www.auburn-ca.com (346 words)

	KINGS: Kings Broadcaster Bios
		In 1993, the Sacramento Kings made the decision to bring all of the club’s broadcast activities inhouse, forming what is currently known as the Kings Broadcasting Network.
		Napear's play-by-play experience includes working with ESPN Radio, the National Hockey League's San Jose Sharks, the Sacramento Gold Miners (1992-94), a former member of the Canadian Football League, and most recently with the San Jose Sabercats of the Arena Football League.
		An extremely popular figure with both the Sacramento community and the national media, Reynolds is an often-requested favorite on the public speaking circuit.
	www.nba.com /kings/news/Kings_Broadcaster_Bios.html (1779 words)

	Travel for Kids: Old Sacramento, California
		During the 1850's, Sacramento was a bustling city on the Sacramento River waterfront, a central hub for miners heading off to the gold fields.
		Old Sacramento Schoolhouse – Imagine attending school a one-room schoolhouse, where you'd wash your hands outside at the pump or warm your hands by a pot-bellied stove in winter.
		In the Gold Gallery, there are hands-on exhibits, gold nuggets galore, a simulated mine shaft, and re-creations of 19th century life in and around Sacramento.
	www.travelforkids.com /Funtodo/California/Gold_Country/oldsacramento.htm (663 words)

	CBC Sports: Pringle retires from football (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A product of Fullerton State University, Pringle was selected in the sixth round (139th overall) by the Atlanta Falcons in the 1990 NFL Draft.
		The Los Angeles native was released by Atlanta in 1991 and played with the Sacramento Surge of the World League of American Football in 1992 before joining the CFL.
		After a brief stint with the Eskimos, Pringle went on to play for the Sacramento Gold Miners and the Stallions.
	www.cbc.ca /story/sports/national/2005/02/14/Sports/pringle050214.html (367 words)

	BirminghamSports
		The CFL is expected to field teams in the United States for the 1993 season, most likely in Sacramento (CA) and San Antonio (TX).
		Joining the league, and earning their place in CFL trivia books, was the Sacramento Gold Miners.
		In 1995, the Birmingham Barracudas and the Memphis Mad Dogs were added, Sacramento moved to San Antonio and became the Texans while Las Vegas folded.
	www.birminghamprosports.com /otherteamscfl1992.htm (386 words)

	BUCPOWER.COM
		I played there for two years, and then I went to the CFL for the first time with the Sacramento Gold Miners.
		Sacramento was the only CFL team in the States.
		I was with Sacramento for a year and a half and that was when I really got involved in coaching.
	www.bucpower.com /feature-kerwin.html (1357 words)

	Gold mining history resources. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Gold in North Georgia where the rush continued from the early 1800's until 1849, when word of gold in California reached Georgia and many of the miners left.
		Gold discovery for primary students cradles, puddles & pans exploring the Bendigo Goldfields of the 1850’s.
		Gold was first discovered in Bendigo in 1851 and led to an influx of miners and hopefuls all trying to stike it rich.
	www.goldminershq.com /FRAME/GENERAL/HISTI.HTM (1468 words)

	State Hornet
		The 50-by-50-foot building was built by Sacramento Surge owner Fred Anderson for the Hornets, after the now-defunct World League football team took over the old weight room inside the Hornet Stadium field house.
		The most common comparison shared by many players who have transferred to Sacramento State from other universities is that the football team's new weight room is "smaller but better" than what their previous school had to offer.
		The gold equipment has been given a place of honor in the center of the room, and is used only on very special occasions.
	www.csus.edu /hornet/archive/spring98/number50/sports.html (1991 words)

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