Gold Rush Fever! California 1849 and the Discovery of America

It was one of the most-significant events in U.S. history, and it all began with a water-powered sawmill. In 1848 Swiss immigrant John Sutter in Coloma, California and his carpenter, James W. Marshall, found something that made his “heart thump" -- flakes of gold in a stream bed.
Then, on December 5, 1848, Pres. James K. Polk confirmed the news during his State of the Union address. What had been a steady trickle of gold seekers now became a stampede.
The Gold Rush sparked an unprecedented mass migration in the U.S. At the time of the discovery, and within a year about 80,000 “forty-niners” (as the fortune seekers of 1849 were called) had reached the California goldfields. By 1853 their numbers had grown to 250,000.
The Discovery of America... and the opening of the great American West in the early 19th century is explored. The westward march of Americans toward the Pacific sets the stage for the Gold Rush. A LionHeart FilmWorks original production. This multi-part series will explore these people and events...
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[@lymarie1974]

Thank you for the upload.

[@wanderlust451]

Brennan, the man with a plan 👏👏👏

[@lizziesangi1602]

And they are still finding gold in river bends coming off the mountains in Montana. One gentleman was finding an ounce of gold and a little more, a day.
"There's gold in them there hills!" 😅

[@richardofoz2167]

Hang on...Marshall dredges the mill's outflow ditch without doing anything to increase its inflow? Interesting idea....No wonder he ended up losing his land.