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- The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848 when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's ...61 KB (8,925 words) - 18:25, 25 November 2023
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- The region is famous for the Klondike Gold Rush as well as its midnight sun. ... to become famous during the Klondike gold Rush and was part of Dawson ...24 KB (3,529 words) - 21:38, 4 June 2023
- == Gold rush and court cases == [[Image:Chief John Ross.jpg|thumb|Chief ... in 1829, and the subsequent Georgia Gold Rush, the first gold rush in ...16 KB (2,520 words) - 04:56, 1 May 2023
- and for his association with the California Gold Rush. Leaving his family behind after several failed business ventures, and after a long journey ...21 KB (3,406 words) - 07:56, 3 August 2022
- through trade. However, the California Gold Rush of 1849 disturbed their ... However, it was not until the California Gold Rush of 1849 that they disturbed ...12 KB (1,758 words) - 18:13, 21 August 2023
- into their lands during the California Gold Rush in 1849, the Yurok were ... The California gold rush of 1849 led to great numbers of settlers ...15 KB (2,139 words) - 10:30, 7 June 2023
- devastating new diseases. The California Gold Rush brought more settlers who ... The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought dramatic changes to the region ...12 KB (1,746 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- from Kentucky to California during the Gold Rush era. Though initially shunned ... was the westward expansion under way, the Gold Rush made the rush for land ...16 KB (2,613 words) - 03:51, 1 May 2023
- The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848 when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's ...61 KB (8,925 words) - 18:25, 25 November 2023
- of the Dakotas overwhelmed the Lakota. The 1870s gold rush in the Dakota Territory's Black Hills brought hordes of prospectors and settlers. ...12 KB (1,889 words) - 16:24, 27 December 2023
- influenced progressive rock acts such as Rush, jam bands such as The Allman ... * Fresh Cream—December 1966 (RIAA: Gold) * Disraeli Gears—November ...18 KB (2,740 words) - 06:17, 11 January 2024
- through trade. However, the California Gold Rush of 1849 disturbed their ... However, it was not until the California Gold Rush of 1849 that they disturbed ...18 KB (2,714 words) - 07:37, 14 June 2023
- === Industrial era and gold rush === [[Image:Bixby landing2.jpg|thumb ... a large population. In the 1880s, a gold rush boom town, Manchester, ...23 KB (3,598 words) - 03:49, 1 October 2023
- Gold (chemical symbol Au; atomic number 79) has long been valued as ... Gold (Sanskrit jval, Greek χρυσος [khrusos], Latin aurum for ...28 KB (4,345 words) - 08:13, 24 January 2023
- whaling ship and in the California Gold Rush, Manjiro risked execution ... Manjiro promptly set out by sea for the California Gold Rush. He arrived ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- of his paintings from this period utilized gold leaf; the prominent use of ... [http://www.artnews.com/2007/01/01/gold-rush/ "Gold Rush" ...15 KB (2,101 words) - 21:28, 26 July 2023
- classic "Ohio," recorded and rush-released weeks later, providing ... for Beginners, and Young's After the Gold Rush). All four solo LPs placed ...21 KB (3,245 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- #039;s end, eventually growing into a full-scale gold rush. Accompanying or following the prospectors were hunters, many of them former combatants, ...22 KB (3,090 words) - 02:25, 21 April 2023
- mid-1850s in the wake of the Victorian gold rush. His maternal grandfather ... From the days of the nineteenth century gold rush, when many Chinese came ...23 KB (3,472 words) - 01:43, 16 December 2022
- parents had moved for the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush. He worked in Klondike ... * Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2001 ...22 KB (3,103 words) - 05:19, 24 November 2022
- thousands more followed, especially after gold was discovered in California ... to Utah, and the California Trail to the gold fields of California. ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- Between 1958 and 1980, submitted films were presented with a gold ... feature films continued to be awarded the gold, silver, and bronze prizes ...31 KB (4,353 words) - 07:05, 13 June 2023
- " released in 1974, was his first certified gold album. ... his songs were performed by Joan Baez, Tom Rush, the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt ...19 KB (2,645 words) - 09:05, 13 March 2024
- early 1849. Later, during the Californian Gold Rush, gold was discovered on ... Division, after John Frémont. The gold arrow on the 8th ID crest ...16 KB (2,336 words) - 16:59, 5 April 2024
- metals, such as during the California gold rush in the mid 1800s, was very ... America during the California and Klondike gold rushes. ...18 KB (2,752 words) - 18:50, 9 November 2022
- In 1849, at the apex of the California Gold Rush, Alexander Cartwright headed west in search of fortune. Upon reaching California, he became ...11 KB (1,661 words) - 09:07, 18 July 2023
- cane, as well as other metals such as gold and platinum. Occasionally ... usually containing nickel, silver, copper, or gold. “Flutes” Encyclopædia ...17 KB (2,413 words) - 21:52, 26 December 2023
- since the 1800s, contributing to the Gold Rush, the building of the transcontinental ... the Oregon Trail and the California Gold Rush of 1849; California experienced ...23 KB (3,514 words) - 17:21, 4 May 2023
- shaped, with almond-shaped eyes that can be gold, green, hazel, or copper. ... *Punkin, an Abyssinian cat belonging to radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 07:07, 14 June 2023
- With very rapid population growth after the California Gold Rush, a state convention adopted an antislavery state constitution in late 1849, ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- a bit of fat (often bacon grease) and water. In gold rush days, dough was mixed right in the prospector's flour bag and cooked in a frypan over ...13 KB (1,987 words) - 07:26, 20 September 2023
- However, after gold was discovered, the U.S. Government violated the ... During the 1875–1878 gold rush, thousands of miners went to the ...27 KB (4,267 words) - 18:05, 31 October 2023
- The gold coin of Hungary (the Florin), of the same weight and purity ... by the arrival of the Black Death. In his rush to leave ravaged Italy, he ...19 KB (2,831 words) - 02:53, 4 November 2022
- one of the of the mythical Seven Cities of Gold. After failing to find riches ... government. By 1850, they had moved to Rush Creek, where, in 1858, they ...12 KB (1,787 words) - 18:44, 4 May 2023
- Wynette. The album was certified "Gold" by the RIAA, and helped ... album Trio II, a cover of "After the Gold Rush" won a Grammy for ...20 KB (3,029 words) - 16:37, 29 January 2024
- Central City contains most of the historic gold- and silver-mining districts ... July 1858, precipitating the Pikes Peak Gold Rush. The placer gold deposits ...37 KB (5,383 words) - 22:39, 7 January 2024
- The California Gold Rush brought the first non-native Americans known ... This started a minor and short-lived gold rush into the area. The Keane ...35 KB (5,565 words) - 08:57, 28 January 2024
- During the 1849 California Gold Rush, he offered a shortcut via Nicaragua to California thus cutting 600 miles (960 km) at half the price of ...13 KB (1,982 words) - 03:32, 8 January 2024
- The Pike's Peak gold rush of 1858 lead to increasing conflicts between whites and Native Americans. Though the Cheyenne were settled peacefully ...15 KB (2,230 words) - 03:11, 23 December 2022
- Johannesburg is the source of a large-scale gold and diamond trade, due to ... * Rosenthal, Eric. 1970. Gold! Gold! Gold! The Johannesburg Gold Rush ...34 KB (4,747 words) - 07:27, 5 April 2024
- Fort Victoria became an important base during the Fraser Gold Rush ... batholith, from which iron, copper, and gold are mined. Coal is extracted ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 14:19, 3 May 2023
- value as a commodity such as grain, gold, or silver. Nearly all contemporary ... the first people to introduce the use of gold and silver coins. ...51 KB (7,687 words) - 16:23, 18 June 2023
- on March 11, 1941. Sandor Szabo finally took the gold from Nagurksi on June 5, 1941. In another version of the world title, he overcame Dean Detton ...14 KB (1,992 words) - 04:34, 22 November 2023
- The whole body is now known as yarsagumba (gold rush) and is very valuable in medicine as a vitalizing agent. As a parasite has to break through ...17 KB (2,521 words) - 07:50, 18 November 2022
- Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. As First Lady, Johnson ... Johnson proposed. Lady Bird did not want to rush into marriage, but Lyndon ...20 KB (3,091 words) - 22:46, 21 October 2022
- The 1898-99, gold rush to the Seward Peninsula brought prospectors to the region, and communities were established. Proposals were made, for ...15 KB (2,176 words) - 11:00, 28 September 2023
- in the United States to take part in the Gold Rush. Much of California has similar climate to parts of Australia and some people thought it would ...15 KB (2,373 words) - 12:22, 21 January 2023
- He dreamed of getting rich in the California Gold Rush, but his plans did not work out. Instead, he found a job as a typesetter. In 1861, he ...15 KB (2,329 words) - 07:25, 22 January 2024
- Diamond album, 20 Platinum albums, and 11 Gold. He had hits in each of the ... albums and duets. Together the duo won two gold records (one of which later ...38 KB (5,690 words) - 22:10, 3 March 2023
- were termed, particularly during the Victorian Gold Rush when a flood of settlers from Van Diemen's Land rushed to the Victorian gold fields ...21 KB (3,190 words) - 07:14, 23 November 2022
- shape resembles a Chinese sycee, a type of gold and silver ingot currency ... in the gold mines, during the California Gold Rush, and on the railroad. In ...42 KB (6,591 words) - 16:45, 10 December 2023
- War, the Boer Wars, the Yukon Gold Rush, settlement of Australia's Outback, the U.S. Indian wars, and settlement of America's western ...16 KB (2,423 words) - 06:37, 31 July 2023
- titled Timeless Topix, where he would rush back and forth from dropping ... awarded Schulz the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian ...16 KB (2,455 words) - 00:33, 5 December 2023
- immigration caused by the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, particularly from the ... The Cariboo Gold Rush of 1861 brought 25,000 men, mainly from California ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 14:18, 3 May 2023
- Contemporary chart, and was certified as a gold single. Coincidentally, "Garden ... * "Fools Rush In" / “Down Home” (Decca 31533) ...14 KB (2,110 words) - 21:05, 16 April 2023
- people hoping to cash in on the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897. ... and exhibition which eventually adopted a gold rush theme. In early 2006, it ...47 KB (6,763 words) - 18:13, 12 February 2024
- California is rich in natural resources. The California Gold Rush ... immigrants during the great California Gold Rush. On September 9, 1850, ...42 KB (5,921 words) - 18:24, 25 November 2023
- An influx of new settlers caused by a gold rush led the government to call a second council in 1863. Government commissioners asked the Nez Perce ...16 KB (2,627 words) - 15:25, 10 December 2023
- . This was followed by the classic The Gold Rush (1925), and The Circus (1928). ... *74. The Gold Rush (Jun 26) 1928 *75. The Circus (Jan 6) ...32 KB (4,840 words) - 00:37, 5 December 2023
- #039;s announcement triggered the Black Hills Gold Rush and gave rise to the lawless town of Deadwood, South Dakota. In 1875, Custer swore by White ...23 KB (3,575 words) - 07:01, 18 April 2024
- Dolls, (1950, 1,200 performances); and the Gold Rush was the setting for Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's Paint Your Wagon (1951). The relatively ...33 KB (5,216 words) - 19:34, 10 November 2022
- opera, Aleko (for which he was awarded a gold medal in composition), his ... Rachmaninoff. Helfgott, played by Geoffrey Rush, enters a piano competition ...19 KB (2,901 words) - 10:00, 26 January 2023
- partners left and participated in the Klondike Gold Rush. Among the camp fire mates at Dawson City during the fall of 1897 was Jack London who rented ...18 KB (2,681 words) - 02:30, 9 February 2023
- Fuego the village of Porvenir emerged during a gold rush in the late 1800s. Until the Panama Canal was finished in 1914, the Strait of Magellan ...20 KB (2,965 words) - 04:44, 28 April 2023
- Natural resources include: bauxite, coal, iron ore, copper, tin, gold ... A gold rush began in the early 1850s, and the Eureka Stockade rebellion ...28 KB (3,913 words) - 17:55, 22 August 2023
- by Niwot in Boulder Valley during the Colorado Gold Rush. Throughout Boulder County, many places are attributed to him or his band of Araphos. The town ...23 KB (3,297 words) - 21:30, 11 August 2023
- the inland region. The discovery of gold along Trinity Creek in 1850 ... The miners logged redwoods for building; and, when this minor gold ...31 KB (4,564 words) - 19:11, 16 April 2023
- climb the Chilkoot Trail during the Klondike Gold Rush.]] Skagway, Alaska, owe their existence to a gold rush in Canada. No history of ...74 KB (11,051 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023
- it yielded about $400 million in silver and gold, equivalent to approximately ... Since the California Gold Rush of the 1850s brought thousands of Chinese ...34 KB (5,052 words) - 04:36, 11 March 2023
- * The Klondike gold rush, which made Seattle a major transportation center. ... was the direct result of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896, which ended the ...49 KB (7,077 words) - 02:45, 21 April 2023
- Black Hills are rich in minerals such as gold, silver, copper, and lead ... Dakotas overwhelmed the Lakota. The 1870s gold rush in the Black Hills brought ...41 KB (6,101 words) - 15:37, 4 February 2023
- The California Gold Rush brought the first Euro-American settlements into the area in the early 1850s, including at Yreka, California and Upper ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 17:45, 10 November 2022
- in January 1848, launching the California Gold Rush. ==War in Northeastern Mexico== The defeats at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma caused political ...28 KB (4,268 words) - 16:30, 9 November 2022
- is an iron ore and AuTe2 gave its name to the gold rush town of Telluride, Colorado in the United States. ==Group 17 (Halogens)== ...30 KB (4,368 words) - 00:41, 24 November 2022
- was "camosack," meaning "rush of water") and known ... With the discovery of gold on the British Columbia mainland in 1858 ...26 KB (3,658 words) - 20:09, 3 May 2023
- It would prove to be the anthem of the California Gold Rush in 1848 and 1849. In 1849, he published Foster's Ethiopian Melodies, which included the ...20 KB (3,215 words) - 20:00, 9 February 2023
- their territory on their way to the Californian Gold Rush. Many of these horses were stolen, and the Comanches earned a reputation as formidable horse ...41 KB (6,731 words) - 00:03, 8 January 2024
- | occupation = Gambler Lawman Saloon Keeper Gold/Copper Miner ... In the fall of 1897, Earp and Josie chased another gold rush to Alaska ...59 KB (9,719 words) - 14:12, 20 May 2023
- Several of Lightfoot's albums achieved gold and multi-platinum ... url=https://www.nicholasjennings.com/before-the-gold-rush|title=Before ...65 KB (9,151 words) - 15:55, 15 May 2023
- The California gold rush brought the first settlers into the state. Pioneers used Lassen Peak as a landmark on their trek to the fertile Sacramento ...22 KB (3,291 words) - 17:48, 25 October 2022
- their fortunes as mercantile magnates for the Gold Rush. For a long period, Tacoma was noted for its large smelters where gold ...48 KB (6,885 words) - 22:59, 3 May 2023
- miners were drawn away to the California Gold Rush. This period of mining before and during the early years of statehood led to the state's ...35 KB (5,043 words) - 23:16, 17 May 2023
- By 1860, even though the California Gold Rush populated the flanks of the Sierra Nevada, most of the Sierra remained unexplored. Therefore, the ...23 KB (3,404 words) - 20:09, 21 April 2023
- as a mining town during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush in what was then the western ... in the area. In the early days of the city, gold and silver booms and busts ...37 KB (5,458 words) - 09:46, 29 January 2024
- army posts. During the 1875–1878 gold rush, thousands of miners went ... their value, and the area was opened to the gold miners. ...36 KB (5,349 words) - 14:00, 20 May 2023
- and hides … and then followed a wild rush of hunters … eager to destroy ... In 1875, the last serious Sioux war erupted, when the Dakota gold ...34 KB (5,411 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023
- in Nagano, Japan. The United States won gold, Canada won silver and Finland ... in 1920). Canada won six of the first seven gold medals. The United States ...69 KB (11,304 words) - 17:15, 10 February 2024
- in the region, thus inaugurating the California Gold Rush. Sherman earned a promotion to captain for his "meritorious service," but his lack ...29 KB (4,410 words) - 20:33, 13 May 2023
- and the onset of the California Gold Rush the following year, the U.S. Army began studying the suitability of Alcatraz Island for the positioning ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 05:05, 17 June 2023
- or so before the outbreak of war, was 1.7 tons of gold. ... Among Wittgenstein's students at Cambridge were Rush Rhees, G ...59 KB (9,088 words) - 02:40, 5 November 2022
- were needed for the dangerous tasks of gold mining and railway construction ... with early stories of the California Gold Rush, Chinese gold-seekers began ...45 KB (6,097 words) - 10:53, 11 March 2023
- and then to 400 in 1848. The California Gold Rush spurred a sharp increase ... them. Reed fared well in the California Gold Rush and became prosperous. ...73 KB (11,798 words) - 17:24, 30 January 2024
- the sea and his ship in San Francisco Bay for the gold rush of 1849 at Sutter's Mill northwest of San Francisco on the Russian River. ...37 KB (5,901 words) - 08:01, 3 April 2024
- for material provisions: Weapons, armor, gold, silver, and supplies. ... Beowulf's men draw their swords and rush to his help, but Grendel is ...26 KB (4,193 words) - 10:54, 28 September 2023
- territory. In 1898, after the Klondike Gold Rush in the Northwest Territories ... in many other natural resources such as gold, nickel, aluminum, and lead; ...54 KB (7,539 words) - 19:09, 25 November 2023
- has a history that includes the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush of 1858-1860 and its famous Cariboo Road, as well as the older Hudson's Bay Company ...29 KB (4,312 words) - 14:17, 29 November 2023
- Asahel took in the Yukon of the Gold Rush. Curtis took credit for the images, claiming that Asahel was acting as an employee of his studio. The ...29 KB (4,492 words) - 23:49, 12 February 2024
- The end of the Mexican-American War and the California Gold Rush of 1848 drew a wave of settlers. San Diego was designated the seat of the newly ...27 KB (3,961 words) - 16:26, 31 October 2023
- (Benjamin Franklin, James Wilson, Benjamin Rush, George Clymer, Robert Morris ... regularly winning Pacemaker and CSPA Gold Circle awards. The Pennsylvania ...31 KB (4,374 words) - 13:08, 3 May 2023
- The whole body is now known as yarsagumba (gold rush) and is very valuable in medicine as a vitalizing agent. ====Predation==== :Predation is ...33 KB (5,007 words) - 07:43, 24 October 2022
- was able to greatly increase the supply of gold and silver from America, which ... did not see any warfare, allowing it to rush ahead into its “Dutch Golden ...28 KB (4,365 words) - 11:02, 23 December 2021
