On January 24th, 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California, sparking the California Gold Rush. Over 300,000 people traveled to California seeking gold over the next few years. The Gold Rush transformed California from a sparsely populated territory into a major economic and political force, with its population increasing over tenfold. It also had significant effects on Native Americans living in California and permanently changed the state's social and economic landscape. The Gold Rush ended around 1852 as prospecting became increasingly difficult.
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VA Foundation for the Humanities | Gold Rush MASTER
NATHAN: Major funding for BackStory is provided by an anonymous donor, the National Endowment for
the Humanities, the University of Virginia, the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial
Foundation, and the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations.
JOANNE: From the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, this is BackStory.
ED: Welcome to BackStory, the show that explains the history behind today's headlines. I'm Ed
Ayers.
JOANNE: I'm Joanne Freeman.
NATHAN: And I'm Nathan Connolly.
JOANNE: If you're new to the podcast, we're all historians and each week we explore the history of one
topic that's been in the news.
NATHAN: And we're going to start off today in Coloma, California a little town up in the foothills of the
Sierra Nevada. 170 years ago this month, a man named James Marshall was working outside
a sawmill. He saw something about the size of a pat of butter glinting under the water flowing
from the mill. He called to a man named James Brown, who was working on the mill.
MALE SPEAKER: Mr. Marshall called me to him. I went and found him examining the bedrock. He said, "this is a
curious rock, I'm afraid that it will give us some trouble." Said I to him, "What makes you think
so?" He said he had seen the blossom of gold.
JAMES
DELGADO:
That sun-struck speck of gold would spark the biggest mass migration of humanity by sea
since the Crusades.
ED: That's maritime archaeologist James Delgado, and that mass migration he's talking about,
that's, of course, the California Gold Rush. Over the course of the gold rush, more than
300,000 people arrived from all over the world. They were trying to strike it rich, either in the
goldfields or in the new boom-towns springing up across California. And no place saw miners
or change arrive faster than San Francisco. By 1860, it would be a city of 60,000 people. But
when gold was first discovered, it wasn't quite so bustling.
JAMES San Francisco in January of 1848 was a small village perched on the end of a muddy cove,
DELGADO: and a population of about 400 people. It was a sleepy little outpost at the edge of the world.
Between January 1, 1849 and the end of the year, 764 ships just left American ports alone,
and there were probably some 500 more that sailed from everywhere else around the world,
including Hong Kong, Valparaiso, Chile, France, Great Britain, Denmark, Australia, you name
it. Everybody came by sea. And so, as the ships started to come in, at first in the dozens and
then up to 90, to 100 ships in any given week, it just simply overwhelmed San Francisco. One
observer literally felt it was a forest of ships masts.
JOANNE: That forest of mass grew thicker each week. Because, while dozens of new ships were coming
into the harbor, almost none were leaving. Most sailors jumped ship as soon as they arrived,
eager to find gold themselves and captains couldn't find anyone willing to take their places. So
the ships stacked u ...
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2. How it all began…
On January 24th, 1848, the first
gold was discovered by James
Wilson Marshall, in Coloma,
California. This time period was
noted as one of the most exciting
time periods in American history.
As soon as people found out
about the first discovery of gold
people flocked to California. The
first people were from Oregon,
Hawaii, and Latin America.
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/ca-
jamesmarshall.html
3. …..
Over 300,000 people
traveled to California for the
gold
Half arrived by sea and the
other half by land from the
East
Most were Americans, but
Europe, Latin America, China
and Australia also engaged
in the activity
4. Fishing for some gold…
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life.com/2011/06/16/buy-
bitcoins-wise-investment-
or-fools-errand/
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5. $$$$
Miners made any where from twelve to thirty-five
dollars per ounce of gold. At this time that was a lot
of money. But, soon it wasn’t acknowledged as
much because demand and supply increased.
6. Native American tribes such Native
as the Maidu, Miwok,
Yalesumni and others who Americans
lived and prospered in
California, they were soon
forced to adapt to the change
in California. They soon
became consumers and
started digging for gold too.
The gold they found they
would exchange for food,
jewelry, and blankets.
8. 'The bulk of Californian's
Indians were conquered,
and died, in innumerable
little episodes of cruel
www.boerner.net leaders or a few squads of
rough soldiers, but in
effect, an entire people;
for the conquest of the
Native Californian was
above all else a popular,
mass enterprise.'-Jack
Forbes, contemporary
Native Historian.
9. Promoting the Gold Rush..
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft758007r3;
chunk.id=d0e2046;doc.view=print
10. Women in the Gold Rush
Women were scarce, but were very useful. Many
of the first women worked in mining fields.
www.ironrangeresearchcenter.org
11. …..
A lot of women fled to California
during the Gold Rush to be
prostitutes. Most were called
entertainers and worked in saloons,
gambling halls, dance halls, peep
shows or brothels.
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dipity.com
12. Women’s work
Most popular way to earn money was starting a boarding
house; which is a place that people can rent for one or
more nights. California was one of the only places women
could earn wages higher or equal to men.
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16. Fire companies, mills, brickyards and foundries,
railroads and stage routes developed.
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17. Social structure and social status permanently
changed due to all the ethnic people who came
to California for gold.
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18. “Many Californians who lived through the gold rush
experienced a number of economic changes.
Merchants charged higher prices for supplies as
people began to stream into California. Money was
more available than food. Price increases effected
everything from eggs to hardware” (McGill).
19. The California Gold Rush presented many
opportunities to people. This was the start of “the
land of the opportunities”. Many people traveled
from all over the world to go to California and
settled there. There were positive and negative
outcomes.
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