California Gold Rush Stories

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• 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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