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Wikipedia: The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill, in Coloma, California. News of the discovery brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. Of the 300,000, approximately half arrived by sea and half came overland.
![[Gold-bearing magma rising after being subducted under the continental crust.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Subduction_magma_rising_s.jpg "Gold-bearing magma rising after being subducted under the continental crust.")
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![[Quartz Stamp Mill in Grass Valley crushes the quartz before the gold is washed out]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Quartz_Stamp_Mill_s.jpg "Quartz Stamp Mill in Grass Valley crushes the quartz before the gold is washed out")
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![[Attack by Native Americans on miners' settlement]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/The_Attack_s.jpg "Attack by Native Americans on miners' settlement")
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![[Routes to California in 1849]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/CalGoldRushMap_s.jpg "Routes to California in 1849")
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![[A forty-niner peers into his gold pan on the banks of the American River]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Gullgraver_1850_California_s.jpg "A forty-niner peers into his gold pan on the banks of the American River")
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![[California goldfields in the Sierra Nevada and northern California]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/California_Gold_Rush_relief_map_2_s.jpg "California goldfields in the Sierra Nevada and northern California")
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