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Searching for El Dorado: The California Gold Rush

Searching for El Dorado: The California Gold Rush . Mexican losses after the Mexican-American War, 1848. James Marshall and Sutter’s Mill. Sam Brannan and the business of prospecting. Panning for placer gold. Article tucked at the back of March 1848 issue of Californian.

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Searching for El Dorado: The California Gold Rush

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  1. Searching for El Dorado: The California Gold Rush

  2. Mexican losses after the Mexican-American War, 1848

  3. James Marshall and Sutter’s Mill

  4. Sam Brannan and the business of prospecting

  5. Panning for placer gold

  6. Article tucked at the back of March 1848 issue of Californian

  7. Individual miners with simple prospecting tools

  8. Handbook for potential prospectors, Boston, 1849

  9. French and German promotions of the California Gold Rush, 1849

  10. White and Chinese mining with an elaborate long tom

  11. To San Francisco by sea

  12. Ad for passage from Boston to California

  13. View of San Francisco, 1850

  14. To San Francisco by sea

  15. Ad for “California Direct,” California Steam Navigation Co.

  16. To San Francisco by sea

  17. Passages to Gold Rush California

  18. The Donner Party stranded in the Sierra Nevadas

  19. Olive Oatman, 1857

  20. Henry Simpson’s misleading “Emigrant’s Guide to the Gold Mines,” 1849

  21. Chinese gold mining camp

  22. “CroquisCaliforniens, par Cham,” Le Charivari, 1850

  23. Black and white miners work a long tom system

  24. White and Chinese mining with an elaborate long tom

  25. “CroquisCaliforniens, par Cham,” Le Charivari, 1850

  26. African-American miner in California, 1849

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