Books with title California Gold Rush: A Guide to California in the 1850s

A True Book: Westward Expansion takes readers on an amazing journey to a fascinating time in U.S. history when the country was experiencing dynamic change and expanding westward.This book provides the keys to discovering the important people, places and events that helped shape the western United States. An age appropriate (grades 3-5) introduction to curriculum-relevant subjects and a robust resource section that encourages independent study is included.

Explore what daily life was like for the miners and the methods they used to search for gold.Even before the first glorious ring of the Liberty Bell, America was a land of freedom and promise. The Cornerstones of Freedom series explores what inspires people from all over the world to start life anew here, endure the economic and social upheavals, and defend the land and rights that are unique to the United States of America. The 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in present-day Sacramento led to a massive surge westward. Hundreds of thousands of people traveled to California from around the world.

The discovery of gold on the magical date of January 24, 1848, when James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill near Coloma, started a rush that was unprecedented in all of the world's history. It started a boom period to the state that lasted at least 15 years. By 1849, gold production reached $10 million, and it would not be until 1929 that production would drop below that value. 1852 was the all-time peak year, with $82 million in gold production from a total of almost four million ounces mined. Between 1850 and 1864, over one million ounces were mined every year.In this book Frank Lorey covers the historic towns and mining locations in the eleven counties which produced the vast majority of California's golden wealth. Most are situated along and nearby to Highway 49, known as California's "Golden Highway." Today many are nothing more than historic locations, having become ghost towns long ago, but some are still quite lively locations.The book was developed from a popular series of articles in the California Geology and California Mining Journal magazines over the years, starting in 1985. Frank Lorey has taken many of the photographs during his travels in the area, and for a few years he lived just outside the gold rush country.

At home or on the road, this interactive book examines major events and lasting changes that led up to and beyond the worlds best known gold rush. Each section is packed with interesting details, easy to understand information, photos, illustrations, and self-tests designed to entertain as well as add to your knowledge. Travel the 1849 Emigrants’ Trail across the continent by wagon into Sutter’s Fort and the gold fields. Find out what it was like to sail on an ocean voyage to San Francisco by way of Panama or the tip of South America. Learn how to find gold and the various methods used to extract hidden treasure from the region known as the Mother Lode. Explore a wide selection of towns that emerged along California’s historic Highway 49 in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada during this unique period of America’s past.

On January 24, 1848, James Marshall discovered a small nugget of gold in a stream near Sutter's Mill, California. Though he tried to keep it a secret, word spread through the country like wildfire. Before the year was out, the great American Gold Rush had begun. Here's a true-life story that re-creates a time when people from all walks of life dropped what they were doing and headed west with picks and shovels in the hope of finding riches--and added a brand-new chapter to our country's history.