1850

EL DORADO, California

hydraulic mining, gold fever, Agriculture

Gold fever broke out in the nation, and thousands of immigrants came to California joining in the greatest mass migration in America history in 1849. Many Americans traveled to California by sea, and they arrived at the southern tip of South America in the summer of 1849.  The route posed a great risk of disease, but that could not stop gold seekers' ambition. At the beginning of 1849, San Francisco...