The Gold Rush in California
Thousands of miners flooding to the golden state in the hopes of getting rich. Gold fields at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains busy day and night. Gold was first discovered in 1848, not the times people usually associate with gold panning. That place used to be a quaint little valley, all sunshine, smiley faces, and rainbows. Then the miners came and it was fire, freshly turned soil and dead stuff, like a little sample of Doomsday. Most of those miners traveled on wagons and on foot, trekking for over 6 months across the land. But most of these money-hungry miners would on average find about an ounce of gold per day. That's still more money than they would have found lying around back home, though.
Gold panning went a bit like this. First, you put some dirt in your gold pan. Then you get some water in the aforementioned dirt-filled gold pan and slosh it around. Hopefully, once you've poured out the water, some gold remains. However, lots of miners left California broke, for they could not find much gold. Once, a gigantic fire in 1854 burned the an entire town down. Tough people, they began rebuilding very soon after. However, the very same happened again in 1857, and burned it all down again.
In Columbia, you could only be represented in court if you were white. That very courtroom was the same place people got married. Speaking of multi-purpose buildings, let's talk about the barbers. The Barbershop was the place for haircuts, medicine, and the bathhouse. Disgusting, right? Cleanliness wasn't exactly number one on the priority list.
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