Deseret News archives: Gold discovered at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, creating more westward rush
On Jan. 24, 1848, gold was found in California's American River. Mormon pioneers, members of Mormon Battalion were among the ...
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The Discovery of Gold on This Date in 1848 at Sutter’s Creek Kicked Off the California Gold Rush and Transformed America
Between 1848 and 1855, California produced an estimated 750,000 pounds of gold. After that the take gradually declined, and ...
Is there still gold in California? Why the gold rush lives on 200 years later
More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California.
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Is there still gold in California? Why the gold rush lives on 200 years later
On the morning of Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall made a discovery ... The spirit of the original forty-niners who tilled the land lives on in those still digging for riches in the California ...
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Is there still gold in California? Why the gold rush lives on 200 years later
Many of the 'Forty niners' crossed the United States from the ... San Francisco became a ghost town by the spring of 1848. Most men had left their shops to work the mines and others throughout ...