California Gold Rush Space Page

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California Gold Rush Project

The California Gold Rush Project is a Sub-Project of the California Project

Welcome to the California Gold Rush Space Page

Profiles

• Grizzly Adams
• Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
• Levi Strauss
• Sherman Otis Houghton
• US Grant
• People Associated with the California Gold Rush

External Links

• Famous People from the Gold Rush
• Eye Witness to History - The California Gold Rush, 1849
• Wikipedia: California Gold Rush
• Wikipedia - American Frontier
• California Genealogy
• Chinese Immigrants and the California Gold Rush
• California Gold Rush Map
• Harvard Immigration in the US - 1789-1930, California Gold Rush
• Little Known Facts
• California Gold Rush, Nevada County Gold
• Daily Mail - How the Wild West REALLY looked - sepia-tinted pictures show the landscape as it was charted for the very first time
• Eye Witness to History - The California Gold Rush, 1849
• California Gold Rush Records
• California Mining Towns, Western Mining History
• PBS American Experience Gold Rush
• Food and the California Gold Rush
• Gold Rush Links
• California Gold Rush Chronology
• Railroads to the West
• They Saw the Elephant, Story of Women in the Gold Rush book review only

Gold Rush Towns

San Francisco during the Gold Rush

• Curious Names 49ers Left Rich Legacy of Outrageous Names
• Historic Highway-49
• Gold Rush Towns of the Central Foothills
• California Mining Towns
• Historic Mining Ditches Near Foresthill
• History of Dutch Flat
• El Dorado County Genealogy
• Genealogy, Mariposa Gold Rush
• Placer County Historical Agency

Cemeteries

Each of the sites below have a link to The California GenWeb Project. This includes data from the Tombstone Transcription Project. For other counties, try the link above first.

• Amador County Cemetery records
• El Dorado County Cemetery Records
• Calaveras County Cemetery records

True Tales

• True Tales of the Gold Rush diaries, letters and other first hand accounts
• What I Saw in California, Bryant Project Gutenburg, free download
• Diary of a 49er C.L. Canfield
• Indian and Scout by Capt. F.S. Brereton
• Rush to Riches
• The Shirley Letters from the California Mines
• Library of Congress: California as I Saw it collection of first hand accounts
• Sarah Royce's Diary

Maps

• PBS Map
• Mining Claims and Sites on Federal Land
• US Miner: Placer Gold Maps
• Youtube: Google Earth, Abandoned Gold Claims
• California Gold Maps Online
• US Mining Claims
• Treasurenet: Active and Abandoned Mining Claims
• Youtube: Mormon Island Ruins under Fossil Lake

Popular Culture

• Goodreads:Gold Rush Fiction 32 books
• California Gold Rush tv movie
• PBS, The American Experience: California Gold Rush