The Gold Rush

The gold discovery at Sutter’s Mill wrought a new landscape and economy in the West. It was responsible for an unprecedented wave of immigration. It created labor phenomena like the Forty-Niners, the so-called gold-hunters who rushed to California upon hearing the news in search of their fortune. Even President Polk got swept away in the fever when he told Congress that California might be a potential source of enormous wealth. Immigrants from around the world soon followed, including Europeans, Asians and South Americans. Mining camps

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). James S. Brown was a foreman on the saw mill project being constructed for Sutter. In 1894, 46 years after the discovery of gold at Sutter’s mill, Brown wrote “An Authentic History of the First Find With The Names of Those Interested in the Discovery.” In this work we are privy to much first-hand information concerning the construction of the mill, the nature of the laborers employed there, and the original discovery of gold nuggets. As we saw with Colonel Mason’s original document, Brown’s demonstrates the interaction of cultures that were forged in the west at this point in American history. Brown relates the reason why he was in charge of the Native American workers “I, having picked up sufficient of the Indian dialect to direct the Indians in that labor, was set to look after that work, and as all hands were getting out timber so near the race, I had stepped away from them and was with the white men when Mr. Marshall came down to look after the work in general” (Brown 3). In the evening the men would open the force gates and let water through to wash away any loose sand or gravel. Digger Indians were used to dig any remaining cable rock the water flow did not remove. One day, Mr. Marshall came down and inspected th
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