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"The California Gold Rush comes alive with true stories about the people who lived it." Choose from over 70 informative California gold rush articles by Don Baumgart.

When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill on the American River in 1848, it started the California Gold Rush, one of history's largest mass migrations. Here writer Don Baumgart brings the California Gold Rush alive by writing about the people who lived it.

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California Gold Rush Stories:

  • Welcome to Judge Lynch's Court!
  • Gold Field Justice Was Seldom Just
  • Electricity from a Gold Mine
  • Trading Gold for Mercury - A Bad Deal
  • Strange and Violent News
  • Gold Rush Foods Were As Diverse As the Miners
  • A Few Gold Rush Ghost Towns Remain
  • The First Invaders Were Seeds
  • The Gold Rush Heads East
  • Air Base Once a Landing Place for Miners
  • Deadly Duels in Nevada City
  • Bringing a Mine Back to Life
  • Early Train Connections Remembered
  • Paddle Wheelers Took Men to the Gold In a Style They Would Not See Again
  • Today's Canals Once Played An Important Role in the Gold Rush
  • They Carried the Freight
  • Before He Marched Through Georgia Sherman Marched to Sutter's Mill
  • Darn Them Lowdown Highgraders!
  • California Gets a Constitution
  • Halt! Who Goes There?
  • Old West Trials Were Liquid Affairs
  • The Dam Has Broke!
  • A Series of Firsts Heralds The Creation of a Town
  • She Survived an Historic Ordeal
  • Water Became a Major Tool
  • Gold Seekers Changed the Lives of Natives Forever
  • Remains of Prehistoric Gold Miner Found
  • Lumber Was an Important Part of California's Early History
  • A Ghostly Scent of Lavender
  • Fire Repeatedly Destroyed Western Towns
  • "Wagons West" Was the Cry
  • California -- Silk Capitol of the World?
  • Old Gold Rush Memoir Reclaimed
  • Telephones Come to the Gold Rush
  • Former Gold Miner Finds Bank Robbing Easier Work
  • The Role of Guns in Western Development
  • Those Were the Days, My Friend
  • The Appearance of Stores Was a Sign of Permanence
  • "Old Block" Was Always a Shining Light
  • Nevada City Victorian Had Three Ghostly Visits
  • Cornish Miners Brought Family Life to the Gold Rush
  • Three Ghosts, No Waiting
  • Crushed Rock & Chemicals Exposed the Gold
  • False Advertising: Salting a Gold Mine
  • Silvery Metal Used to Gather Glittering Gold
  • It Was a Hot Story Few Newspapers Could Resist
  • The Gold is Gone but the Chemicals Linger On
  • The Little Town at the End of the Road
  • Stagecoaches Moved Gold, Men and Supplies West
  • Old Time Shootout at Gold Flat
  • Miners From Oregon Were Early Gold Rush Arrivals
  • Nevada City Was One of the Original Gold Discovery Sites
  • Angry Ghosts Fire Fears In Old Nevada City Firehouse
  • Steam Power Helped Build California
  • Water is Put to Work In Underground Mines
  • They Came for the Bright Metal And Are Remembered in Dull Stone
  • Gold Rush Nuggets Are Once Again Hidden Away
  • Gamblers Flooded In To Lighten Miners' Loads
  • Gold Field Doctor Found More Disease Than Riches
  • Water Power Idled Miners As Big Business Moved In
  • Pressure Builds to End Hydraulic Gold Mining
  • It Was Hard Work and Hard Play For the Men of the Gold Rush
  • Empire Mine Evolves From Accident to Prominence
  • Even the Famous Were Lured By the Promise of Riches
  • Some Mining Camps Faded Others Grew To Be Cities
  • Legends of Lost Gold Mines Still Attract Fortune Hunters
  • Women Miners Shared Gold Rush Hardships
  • Golden Nuggets Brought Steel Rails to the West
  • Entertaining Miners Became A Rare Golden Opportunity
  • It Was a Dark and Stormy Night And the Nuggets Fell Like Rocks
  • Gold Field Desperadoes Used Pistols, Not Pans
  • Legendary Stagecoach Robber Black Bart Led A Merry Chase
  • As More Forty-Niners Arrived Illness Swept the Gold Fields
  • Sea Voyages Brought Easterners to the Gold
  • Tales of Golden River Beds Turned Eyes to California
  • Newspapering Gold Rush Style Was Not Always An Easy Job
  • The Gold Rush Became History's Most Literate Mass Migration
  • A Worker Who Saw Gold Discovered Recorded the Historic Events
  • Mexico Gave Up Ownership of Gold Country Riches
  • Cornish Miners Followed Vanishing Gold Underground
  • Moving West Men Lived on Boiled Badger and Bullet-Proof Bread
  • Gold Rush Women Were More Scarce Than Nuggets
  • Gold Rush Names Tell Some Rich Stories of Wins and Losses
  • Christmas Found Gold Rush Miners Far From Their Homes
  • It Was "Difficult Come" and"Easy Go" in the Gold Fields

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