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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 ...
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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 ...
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  • == 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 ...
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  • and for his association with the California Gold Rush. Leaving his family behind after several failed business ventures, and after a long journey ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • devastating new diseases. The California Gold Rush brought more settlers who ... The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought dramatic changes to the region ...
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  • 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 ...
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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 ...
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  • of the Dakotas overwhelmed the Lakota. The 1870s gold rush in the Dakota Territory's Black Hills brought hordes of prospectors and settlers. ...
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  • influenced progressive rock acts such as Rush, jam bands such as The Allman ... * Fresh Cream—December 1966 (RIAA: Gold) * Disraeli Gears—November ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • === Industrial era and gold rush === [[Image:Bixby landing2.jpg|thumb ... a large population. In the 1880s, a gold rush boom town, Manchester, ...
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  • Gold (chemical symbol Au; atomic number 79) has long been valued as ... Gold (Sanskrit jval, Greek χρυσος [khrusos], Latin aurum for ...
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  • whaling ship and in the California Gold Rush, Manjiro risked execution ... Manjiro promptly set out by sea for the California Gold Rush. He arrived ...
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  • of his paintings from this period utilized gold leaf; the prominent use of ... [http://www.artnews.com/2007/01/01/gold-rush/ "Gold Rush" ...
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  • classic "Ohio," recorded and rush-released weeks later, providing ... for Beginners, and Young's After the Gold Rush). All four solo LPs placed ...
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  • #039;s end, eventually growing into a full-scale gold rush. Accompanying or following the prospectors were hunters, many of them former combatants, ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • parents had moved for the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush. He worked in Klondike ... * Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2001 ...
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  • thousands more followed, especially after gold was discovered in California ... to Utah, and the California Trail to the gold fields of California. ...
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  • Between 1958 and 1980, submitted films were presented with a gold ... feature films continued to be awarded the gold, silver, and bronze prizes ...
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  • " released in 1974, was his first certified gold album. ... his songs were performed by Joan Baez, Tom Rush, the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt ...
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  • early 1849. Later, during the Californian Gold Rush, gold was discovered on ... Division, after John Frémont. The gold arrow on the 8th ID crest ...
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  • metals, such as during the California gold rush in the mid 1800s, was very ... America during the California and Klondike gold rushes. ...
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  • In 1849, at the apex of the California Gold Rush, Alexander Cartwright headed west in search of fortune. Upon reaching California, he became ...
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  • cane, as well as other metals such as gold and platinum. Occasionally ... usually containing nickel, silver, copper, or gold. “Flutes” Encyclopædia ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • With very rapid population growth after the California Gold Rush, a state convention adopted an antislavery state constitution in late 1849, ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • However, after gold was discovered, the U.S. Government violated the ... During the 1875–1878 gold rush, thousands of miners went to the ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Central City contains most of the historic gold- and silver-mining districts ... July 1858, precipitating the Pikes Peak Gold Rush. The placer gold deposits ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Pike's Peak gold rush of 1858 lead to increasing conflicts between whites and Native Americans. Though the Cheyenne were settled peacefully ...
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  • Johannesburg is the source of a large-scale gold and diamond trade, due to ... * Rosenthal, Eric. 1970. Gold! Gold! Gold! The Johannesburg Gold Rush ...
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  • Fort Victoria became an important base during the Fraser Gold Rush ... batholith, from which iron, copper, and gold are mined. Coal is extracted ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The 1898-99, gold rush to the Seward Peninsula brought prospectors to the region, and communities were established. Proposals were made, for ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • were termed, particularly during the Victorian Gold Rush when a flood of settlers from Van Diemen's Land rushed to the Victorian gold fields ...
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  • 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 ...
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