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The Toxic Legacy of the Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush has often been told as a story of a brief, environmentally benign, even romantic ‘rush’ that ended as quickly as it began. In truth, gold mining in California was highly extractive and industrial, and continued well into the 20th century. Over time, miners developed …
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The modern day gold rush ; private military corporations
Since wars have existed, there have been soldiers for hire. As the state evolved, originating during the peace of Westphalia, and matured, the definition and the business of mercenarism have gone through many mutations. Today, and particularly since the 1970s, mercenaries have banded together, …
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The history of Tuolumne County during the gold rush
… of yesterdays, during those frenzied days of gold, that men fought and toiled and died for that precious metal. Miners in search of this precious substance penetrated into its forests, prospected up and down its canyons, and climbed its steep and rugged mountains. Towns sprang up overnight and …
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Stampede: the Klondike Gold Rush and the individuals who experienced it
<p>The Klondike Gold rush took place roughly 125 years ago, and much has been written about this event. I realize the challenge for me as a historian is to bring something new to the table that can add to this already well-researched and discussed topic. I am confident that this paper has done just …
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Farewell, Kelsey: An Historical Overview and Oral Histories of a Disappearing Gold Rush Town
<p>Kelsey, California, a Gold Rush town located in El Dorado County in the Sierra Nevada Range, survived for 146 years. After the Gold Rush of 1848 - 1868, the mining camp first known as "Kelsey's Diggins" settled into a rugged, self-reliant community whose economy depended on mining, timbering, …
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Remaking the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands: The North-West Mounted Police, the United States Army, and the Klondike Gold Rush
Public and academic historians of the Klondike gold rush have long positioned the Alaska-Yukon border as an established fact, serving as a firm dividing line between perceived American lawlessness and Canadian order as thousands of miners rushed to the Yukon and Alaska from 1896-1899. A wider, …
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The Marvel of Civilization: A Missiological History of the Evangelical Missionaries to California During the Gold Rush Era (1848 - 1861)
Evangelical missionaries to California during the Gold Rush Era asserted a missiological synthesis of Great Commission Theology, American civilization, and California exceptionalism. The missionaries viewed their mission as exceptional, believing they played a providential role in advancing …
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Pacifying Paradise: Violence and Vigilantism in San Luis Obispo
… revolutions, Mexican-American War, and the Gold Rush. The history of the county is explored until 1863 to garner an understanding of the borderlands violence therein.</p>
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The Chinese in San Francisco and the Minig Region of California 1848-1858
… and often dangerous decade of the California Gold Rush was an integral part of the social, economic, and political life of the burgeoning new state, and what transpired between the years of 1848 and 1858 in large measure set the tone and determined the nature of racial conflicts that …
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High Sierra Lost and Found: The Origins of Alpine Skisport in the American West
… West, focusing on the Sierra Nevada during the Gold Rush era. Following the introduction of wooden skis by Norwegian immigrants working on mines in Plumas and Sierra Counties, skiing quickly transitioned from a utilitarian mode of winter transportation to a recreational and competitive sport. …
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The Southern perception of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1845-1853
… the Oregon Question, Mexican War, California Gold Rush, Compromise of 1850 to the Pacific Railroad and Gadsden Purchase. The people of the Southern states responded to these national issues of westward expansion from 1845 to 1853 as Americans. And as Americans, the partisan differences between …
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Die deutschen Enwanderer in Sacramento: German immigrants in Sacramento, 1850--1859
… immigrants from their homelands, while the gold rush in California pulled them with dreams of riches. Some came directly from Germany, some made an intermediate stop in the United States, but, after arriving in California, many went to Sacramento. A small nucleus of permanent residents …
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Cross-Institutional Collaboration and Exhibit Making: “On the Gold Mountain: Chinese Mining History and Heritage of Idaho” at the Idaho Museum of Mining and Geology
<p>The Gold Rush, which brought many new immigrant communities to the American West, made a permanent impact on American culture by prompting the development of many Western towns. However, the Chinese immigrant mining population in the Boise, Idaho area has had little museum representation despite …
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Three essays on education decisions in Colombia
… and Child Labor: Evidence from the Colombia's Gold Rush Driven by a sharp rise in international prices, Colombia experienced a gold rush that reached its peak in 2012. The boom was characterized by the prevalence of small-scale artisan and illegal mining. This paper estimates the local effects …
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A Legacy Cut Short The Impact of Pepperdine University on African Americans and South Los Angeles from 1937 – 1981
<p>Due to the California gold rush in the 1800s, White Southerners seeking quick wealth flocked to the “free-state” of California. These new settlers included enslaved Africans, religion, and Southern attitudes that set the foundation for California to be a Southern-attitude state, which eventually …
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Decolonizing the Body
… it discusses the Spanish Colonial system and the Gold Rush, glosses over the genocide of her indigenous inhabitants and the oppression experienced by those who survived these historical traumas. By focusing on the works of three indigenous poets (Deborah Miranda, Natalie Diaz, and Tommy Pico) who …
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Control of Violence, Control of Fear: The Progression of Gun Control in San Francisco, 1847-1923
… 1923, from the control of the rowdy men of the gold rush, to the management of the Chinese, to the control of the sale and distribution of firearms. For the purpose of this study, the main sources used to understand public perceptions are newspapers, specifically the <em>Daily Alta California, …
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University of Montana Forensic Case #12: Comprehensive Case Analysis
… belong to a Chinese laborer dating back to the gold rush (Joyce, 1983). An 1884 map of Last Chance Gulch, in which the remains were discovered, indicate that a Chinese cemetery is in the area but the exact coordinates have never been determined (Joyce, 1983). After an in-depth analysis of the …
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University of Montana Forensic Case #12: Comprehensive Case Analysis
… belong to a Chinese laborer dating back to the gold rush (Joyce, 1983). An 1884 map of Last Chance Gulch, in which the remains were discovered, indicate that a Chinese cemetery is in the area but the exact coordinates have never been determined (Joyce, 1983). After an in-depth analysis of the …
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The Synthesis and Fabrication of Two-Dimensional Polymers
… of graphene, there has been a proverbial gold rush in the field of two-dimensional (2D) materials because their unique properties promise numerous applications. The synthesis of 2D materials is currently a hot field with many branches, one of them being synthetic two-dimensional polymers …
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