Worldwide Gold Rush to California Begins
My Gold Rush posts this year have traced the spread of the news, from the
My Gold Rush posts this year have traced the spread of the news, from the
As soon as I heard about it, I wanted to see the Plains Indians special
I had another novel in mind for my last haunting book review this month, but
Throughout 1848, fortune-seekers streamed into California, even though the U.S. government had not yet acknowledged
This month I’m writing another series of book reviews on “haunting books.” I haven’t read
When autumn came to 1848, San Francisco was already a boom town and coping with
Word of the Sutter’s Fort gold discovery reached Oregon in the summer of 1848. Oregon
In 1971, when I was fifteen, I went on a People to People High School
As I review my novel about the California Gold Rush with my writing critique partners,
By the beginning of June 1848 there were around 2,000 miners in the Sierra Nevada