ASIN: B00F1JYW4A
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 51
*Includes pictures.*Includes primary accounts of the gold rush. *Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading.*Includes a table of contents. “As the spring and summer of 1848 advanced, the reports came faster and faster from the gold-mines at Sutter’s saw-mill. Stories reached us of fabulous discoveries, and spread throughout the land. Everybody was talking of “Gold! gold!!” until it assumed the character of a fever. Some of our soldiers began to desert; citizens were fitting out trains of wagons and pack-mules to go to the mines. We heard of men earning fifty, five hundred, and thousands of dollars per day...” – William Tecumseh ShermanOne of the most important and memorable events of the United States’ westward push across the frontier came with the discovery of gold in the lands that became California in January 1848. Located thousands of miles away from the country’s ...
