The work was hard and dirty. Disease spread quickly. Native tribes were displaced and murdered. This is the unvarnished story of the “49ers” and their legacy
One of James K. Polk’s last major acts as president was also one of his most consequential: He helped set off the California Gold Rush.
Polk’s deed came during his final State of the Union in December 1848. After discussing the recently concluded Mexican-American War, the president got to the point: There was gold in those California hills. A sawmill worker named“The accounts of the abundance of gold in that territory are of such an extraordinary character as would scarcely command belief,”There were already at least 4,000 gold prospectors in California, he reported. There would soon be many more.
Those prospectors probably won’t get rich from their finds. It turns out, neither did the so-called “Portsmouth Square in San Francisco in 1851 during the California Gold Rush. The city was one of several major cities that exploded in population thanks to the rush.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.One way to measure the impact of the Gold Rush is by population.
“All sorts and conditions of men, old, young, and middle-aged… were relinquishing their existing pursuits and associations to commence a totally new existence in the land of gold,” the Edinburgh-born artist J.D. Borthwick Borthwick had been living in New York in 1851 when he “was seized with the California fever” and joined the crowds headed west.
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