History by Subject  ----------San Francisco - Gold Rush

      “Ranch and Mission Days in Alta California,” by Guadalupe Vallejo
      “Life in California Before the Gold Discovery,” by John Bidwell
      Capt. Montgomery Ends Indian Slavery in San Francisco – 1846
      William T. Sherman – California Before the Gold Rush – 1847
      “Discovery of Gold in California,” by Gen. John A. Sutter – 1848
     
      Capt. Sutter Describes the Early Discovery of Gold – 1848
      California Gold Rush Chronology 1846 - 1849
      Excerpts from John Sutter's Diaries 1838-1848
      Eyewitness to the Gold Discovery, by James S. Brown – 1848
      “A Rush to the Gold Washings,” from the California Star – 1848
     
      Thomas O. Larkin Writes of the Gold Discovery – 1848
      William T. Sherman and the Gold Rush – 1848
      Military Governor Mason’s Report on the Discovery of Gold – 1848
      Miners arrive on the Steamship California – 1849
      San Francisco During the Gold Rush Era
     
      History of San Francisco Gold Rush-era Street Names, by Henry C. Carlisle
      From the Diary of Alvin Coffey, African American 49er – 1849
      African American Rights During the Gold Rush
      The Gold Rush and Anti-Chinese Race Hatred
      Dramatic Impact of the Gold Discovery, by Theodore H. Hittell
     
      San Francisco Gold Rush Banking – 1849
      “Discovery of Ca. Gold as Viewed in New York and London,” by Dean Albertson
      Gold Rush-Era Daguerreotypes from the Oakland Museum
      Miner’s Ten Commandments – 1849
      Commandments from a Miner’s Wife – 1849
     
      Gold Hunter’s Farewell to his Wife – 1849
      Gold Rush Stories from Pioneer Women
      Slavery and California Statehood, by Rockwell D. Hunt – 1850
      San Francisco at Statehood – 1850 by Katherine H. Chandler
      California Gold Rush Chronology 1850 - 1851
     
14 Lithographic Views of the California Gold Rush 1850-1857 in PowerPoint (900 Kb)
     
      Steamer Day in the 1850s
      Gold Mining Along the Klamath and the 1851 Indian Massacre
      Ulysses S. Grant and the California Gold Rush – 1852
      California Gold Rush Chronology 1852 - 1854
     
      Gold Rush Mail Service – 1854
      The Miner’s Song – 1857
      Sam Brannan Opens New Bank – 1857
      Chinese Miners in the Gold Fields – 1860
      First Mining Journal of the Pacific Coast – 1860
     
      San Francisco and the Civil War – 1861 by Charles B. Turrill
      A Gold Rush Poem – 1864
      Gold Mining Terms and Procedures, by Charles B. Turrill — 1876
      Letter Sheets of the Gold Rush Era from the California Historical Society

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