Abstract

When gold was discovered in 1848 at Sutter’s Mill on the American River at Coloma, over 80,000 would-be miners from all over the word descended on northern California in the hopes of striking it rich. Although a few of these ‘49ers’ did make their fortunes, for most, gold fever turned out to be a fatal […]

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