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Article: CALIFORNIA CELEBRATES 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF A GOLDEN STATE LEGACY.(Getaways)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 29, 1998
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On a crisp winter morning in 1848, while building a sawmill on the American River, John Marshall peered into the millrace and discovered flakes of pure gold.
Within weeks the boom was on as tens of thousands of ``Forty-Niners'' flocked from all over the world to the Mexican territory of California to reap their fortunes. The gold rush lasted more than a decade and altered the course of Western U.S. history for the next century.
California will celebrate the sesquicentennial of the Gold Rush throughout this year with hundreds of events ranging from a re-enactment of the famous Pony Express ride and tours of working gold mines to gold panning ...
