State of the Union On the East Coast newspapers first published accounts of the gold discovery in mid-summer 1848. Skeptical editors downplayed the notion, despite letters from California like the ...

Polk spoke of “accounts of the abundance of gold” in his December State of the Union address that people began to flock to California in droves. The state’s non-Indigenous population rose ...

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The meticulously research book presents an unvarnished look at the good times and bad days in the Golden State which ...