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California Gold Rush - resources, history and memoirs from the California Gold Rush
Archives of the West
California gold rush memoir of Luzena Stanley Wilson, one of the 49ers.
Bodie State Historic Park
A California gold rush ghost town, once one of the wildest in the west.
California as We Saw It
From the state library, about the California gold rush.
Columbia State Historic Park.
A California gold rush town preserved.
California Gold Rush Sesquicentennial
A comprehensive site about the California Gold Rush from the Sacramento Bee.
California Gold Rush! Untold Stories
From a California gold rush exhibit at the Oakland Museum.
Gold!
A short overview of how the state changed when gold was discovered.
John Sutter Describes the Discovery
A first-person account. From the Museum of the City of San Francisco.
Map of the Mining Camps
Mining camps along the "golden chain."
Marshall Gold Discovery State Park
Sutter's Mill reconstructed.
Official Report on the Gold Mines
Written by Colonel Richard Mason, from the Museum of the City of San Francisco.
The California Gold Rush
From PBS, sponsored by Wells Fargo.
The California Gold Rush Trail
A California gold rush history from the San Francisco Chronicle.
Women in the California Gold Rush
A unique book about women in the California gold rush, by JoAnn Levy.

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