News of gold spread very quickly. An old mountain trader named John Cantrell found a sack full of gold and spread news to Kansas City, Missouri of the event and other traders brought the news to New Mexico, Fort Laramie, and Kansas. Within a short amount of time before winter arrived, Cherry Creek had gained about one hundred new people. The first arrival of gold was on August 26, 1858, which had poor people sweeping in from Kansas City, Lawrence, St. Louis, Omaha and Leavenworth to jump on the chance of changing their
Nevada became a popular gold digging location after the Comstock Lode had been uncovered and 340 million dollars worth of gold and silver had been found. Small findings of gold occurred in parts of Montana, Idaho and other western states that led to huge groups of gold lusting men and women. This want for gold eventually led to numerous Boomtowns showing up all over the place. These Boomtowns grew very quickly with almost every few buildings being a saloon. After the “easy to find” gold was gone mining operations were set up all over the West.
In 1826, an American named Jedediah Smith started to sell furs form different routes. Over time, more American came to California for a shelter and land. By 1848, they learned it was full of real gold. (My State, 3) That was the starting of the Gold Rush, the time that changed California forever. Then the United States defeated Mexico that declared California and part of Mexico were now parts of the United States (My State, 4).
(Tombstone Web). Ed did find stone out there during his ventures, he found silver. Because of what the soldiers had said to him he decided to name his first mine Tombstone, which would one day become the town of Tombstone. Once word spread of Ed’s silver strike, everyone from prospectors to gunmen flocked to the area to find their own riches. By 1881 Tombstone had a population of 4000, making it Arizona’s largest town and the biggest community between New Orleans and San Francisco.
A town born in a mining boom at Pikes Peak in 1858, Denver was to become an unlikely thriving metropolis by the end of the nineteenth century. What now is the capital and largest city in Colorado had the humblest of origins. General William Larimer, a land speculator from eastern Kansas, hadn’t the slightest idea of the chain reaction he put into motion when he discovered gold along the South Platte River. The Pikes Peak Gold Rush brought thousands to Colorado for instant riches. Although, scattered camps of miners settled throughout the Rockies and did not congregate in a high concentration in any particular area.
The California Dream Ever since the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, began for over a span of 7 years the California Gold Rush. Those seeking freedom from the Midwest and East coast packed up their belongings and brought with them their families to California. Considered as a land wild and raw, California offered to thrill-seekers excitement, adrenaline and the promise that California could and would bring to one the wealth, success, and fortune one wished and sought. Though with more and more migrants and immigrants alike coming to California, the accessibility to one’s own “California dream” became more difficult to achieve. Even though the success rates in California are no longer booming nowadays as it was during the turn of
The social economic impact brought many settlers to the northern part of California, and the discovery of “gold” brought on the American conquest in 1848. According to text; The Devil in Silicon Valley, Arthur Stephen Pitti discuses on page 32-33, how the discovery of gold in Northern California brought many settlers; as well as many immigrates, to this state right after the war. Before the California Gold Rush; “165,000 people lived in California and the vast majority of them (150,00 were Indians)”; and in 1848 a big demographic and economic change accord which was brought on by the gold rush. The discovery of gold by James Marshall, “would leak out, and the rush to California was on.” Stephen Pitti best describes it best, “As battle smoke cleared and the ink dried on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, many of the Americans who flooded into the state anticipated the sharp decline of Mexican Americans’ cultural and political influence. While more distant Southern California towns such as Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and San Diego certainly experienced tumult as a result of the mineral discoveries in the Northern California foothills and many more gold-seekers passed through the San Francisco Bay area, including San Jose, on the way to the Mother Lode.” The
Lobster sales are up, and a lot of people are making money out of this business. The lobster boom in Maine, the men there caught 56.7 millions pounds in the years and that triple the take of 15 years ago. Pat white the executive director of the Main lobstermen association said “It can’t go any higher then this” but guess what the next year it went up another million pounds. No one knows what is going on, but the Maine’s brooding rick-rounded cost has more then two million in all lobster boys there trying to get rich. Its like the gold rush all over again.
George Machado Professor Tota English 1101 23 February 2011 Perfection in Boulder The settlement of Colorado was spawned by the lure of gold, due to an economic depression in the eastern United States during the 1850's. In the early years of Boulder City, mining played an extremely important role in Boulder's development. It continued to bring settlers into the area who were both involved in mining itself and in supporting facilities, such as hardware and mining supply stores, transport businesses, room and board houses, and gambling and drinking establishments. As years progressed, Colorado soon developed a strong agricultural industry and people friendly environment. Boulder has won just about every shiny happy lifestyle award a city
Since it was a federal bill, the south, of course, blocked this bill which escalated the tensions as high as they had ever been before. One year later, 1847, John Calhoun comes out and publicly says that slavery is legal in all territories because they aren’t yet a state. Then later that year, Stephen A. Douglas, an Illinois senator, promoted Lewis Cass’s idea of popular sovereignty. Popular Sovereignty let the people of the territory vote themselves whether slavery should be legal or not. In 1849, the California Gold Rush exponentially populated Northern California.