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Tag Archives: Sacramento
Sacramento backs vigilantes
A great majority of the people in Sacramento sympathized with the work of San Francisco’s Committee of Vigilance and showed a disposition to both encourage and support it. After Volney Howard replaced William Sherman as commander of the militia and … Continue reading
Anger spreads over the shooting of King
While the organization of the Committee of Vigilance was underway, word spread throughout California about the shooting of James King of William, and in many places created an excitement that rivaled that of San Francisco. On Thursday evening a meeting … Continue reading
Mining law, the Northern mines
The Sweetland district in Nevada County was organized in 1850 and allowed thirty square feet per claim. Two years later claims of eighty by one hundred and eighty feet were the rule. Then in 1853, at a large miner’s meeting, … Continue reading
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Tagged California gold rush, gold rush, mining law, Sacramento, Yuba River
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Gold rush life changed miners
Every period in world history has its own unique characteristics which are examined in minute detail by historians and scholars throughout the ensuing years, but nowhere else in the world has there been a time such as the early days … Continue reading
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Tagged Borthwick, California gold rush, Downieville, gold rush, Jacksonville, Nevada City, Placerville, Sacramento, San Andreas, Sonora
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Downieville and the North Yuba River
French Corral, on a ridge near where the Middle Yuba merges with the main stream, was at the lower edge of the gold bearing gravel and soon became valuable mining territory. Other places along the Middle Fork of the Yuba, … Continue reading
Mining starts around Nevada City
In the summer of 1848 a man named Rose established a trading post called Rose’s Corral about ten miles southwest of today’s Nevada City to serve the prospectors already scouring the area. In August of 1849 a man named Findley, … Continue reading
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Tagged California gold rush, gold rush, Grass Valley, Sacramento, Sutter's Fort, Yuba River
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The great variety in mining gear
Because of the vast scope of the gold country and the wide variety of conditions in which gold would be found, there could be no standard methods or equipment for mining. What worked in Mokelumne Hill might not work in … Continue reading
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Tagged California gold rush, gold rush, Sacramento, San Francisco
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Wells Fargo expands across the west
After the panic of 1855 the road to expansion in California was wide open for Wells Fargo. Their main rival, Adams and Company, had collapsed and so had a number of smaller operations. Wells Fargo lost money but remained solvent. … Continue reading
Posted in Gold rush businesses, The way west
Tagged California gold rush, Overland Stage, Pony Express, Sacramento, San Francisco, Wells Fargo
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The Pony Express
“Wanted: Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over eighteen. Must be expert riders, willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred.” And so ran the ad that heralded the opening of one of the most romantic episodes in American history, the Pony … Continue reading
The Stagecoach King, Ben Holladay
Ben Holladay once controlled over 2,000 miles of stage lines and earned the title of Stagecoach King, but it was by hauling much needed supplies to early settlements in Utah and California that Holladay most deeply aided the development of … Continue reading
