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Cover -- Half Title -- Editorial Board -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Series Introduction -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- Introduction -- 1 "Gold on the American River!"--2 Deciding to Go -- 3 The Stampede of 1849 -- 4 …
In January of 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. For a year afterward, news of this discovery spread outward from California and started a mass migration to the gold fields. Thousands of people from the East Coast aspirin…
