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During the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, he led a migration of African Americans from San Francisco to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Thomas Gilman (miner) 1830–1911 Tennessee, U.S. African American freedman, miner, farmer was an enslaved African American who self–purchase freedom during the mid-19th-century Daniel Govan: 1829–1911
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. [1] The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. [ 2 ]
Chinese miners were not present in California in a substantial manner at the beginning of the Gold Rush. The population of Chinese miners in California did not break 1,000 people until 1851 with 2,700 miners being counted in the census. In the years proceeding 1852, Chinese miner populations developed rapidly, moving to 20,000 miners in 1852.
Mining communities in California first established in the California Gold Rush (1848–1855) — in the present day primarily former mining towns, now ranging from ghost towns to cities v t
A gold rush or gold fever is a discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare-earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune. Major gold rushes took place in the 19th century in Australia , Greece , New Zealand , Brazil , Chile , South Africa , the United States , and Canada while smaller ...
The number of women in the mining communities and mining camps can be estimated by subtracting the roughly 2,000 females who lived in predominately Californio (Hispanics born in California before 1848) communities and were not part of the gold rush community. About 3.0% of the gold rush Argonauts before 1850 were female or about 3,500 female ...
Fred "Dakota" Hurt, the rugged white-water gold miner who appeared on Discovery's Alaska-set docuseries "Gold Rush: White Water," has died. He was 80.
Pages in category "People of the California Gold Rush" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 291 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .