California Gold Rush

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California Gold Rush
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GOLD!!!

• James W. Marshall discovered gold on January 24,
  1848.
• Marshall was inspecting a ditch at Sutter's saw
  mill when he saw a sparkle beneath the water.
• John Sutter wanted to keep it a secret, but

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the word got out
Nathaniel Currier, "The Way They Go to
California," 1849, lithograph. California
Historical Society, Fine Arts collection,
FN-00033.

• and the world rushed in!

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Who Rushed In?
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How did they get here?

• over land
• by sea

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What was life like for

• the miners?

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What was life like

• for the people living in San Francisco?

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How did it change life for

• the Native Americans?

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How did gold mining change the landscape of
California?
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• Why was the Gold Rush such an important period in
  Californias History?

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Bibliography

• Slide 1 gold digger http//www-rohan.sdsu.edu/
  orloski/images/miner.jpg
• Slide 2 Martin Behrman, "Marshall in front of
  Sutter's Mill," gelatin silver copy photoprint
  from a daguerreotype. Artistic Source Carleton
  E. Watkins after an 1849 daguerreotype attributed
  to Robert Vance. California Historical Society,
  Photography, Martin Behrman Collection, FN-12015,
  VIP01403. This image found on
  http//www.californiahistory.net/chapicslarge/sutt
  etsmill6.1.jpg
• Slide 3 Nathaniel Currier, "The Way They Go to
  California," 1849, lithograph. California
  Historical Society, Fine Arts collection,
  FN-00033. This image found on
  http//www.californiahistory.net/goldFrame-rushed.
  htm
• Slide 4
• Chinese and white miners http//www.pbs.org/weta/
  thewest/resources/archives/images/wimg630/oc52mnrs
  .gif
• A Woman Miner Alongside the Men
  www.goldrush.com/joann/women1.jpg
• Mom and children http//www.collodion-artist.com/
  Gallery/6x8_2.jpg
• African American miner http//www.viewimages.com
  /Search.aspx?mid2160532epmid1partnerGoogle
• Slide 5
• Ship http//class.csueastbay.edu/anthropologymuse
  um/physex/shipchar/images/romepaint2.jpg
• Wagon http//www.boisestate.edu/history/issuesonl
  ine/fall2004_issues/art_features/or_calif2.jpg
• Slide 6 Miners camp http//www.ralphmag.org/CA
  /gold.html
• Slide 7 San Francisco in 1850
  http//gregnoevly.home.mindspring.com/Niantic.jpg
• Slide 8 Miners Interacting with Native
  Americans http//www.calacademy.org/exhibits/sci
  ence_under_sail/images/indians_california.jpg
• Slide 9
• Charles Christian Nahl, "Hydraulic Method of
  Mining," ca. 1857, wood engraving. Published by
  Hutchings Co., San Francisco. W. C. Butler,
  engraver, San Francisco. California Historical
  Society, Fine Arts collection, FN-04124
  http//www.californiahistory.net/goldFrame-digging
  s.htm
• Mine tailings http//www.historycooperative.org/
  journals/sia/30.2/images/vanbueren_fig05bhi.jpg