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Persons with an Interest in California Gold Rush History to:

• Take the Gold Rush tour to find out what life was really like for the California Gold Rush Miners.
• Read the Miner's Ten Commandments from The Placerville Herald, dated June 4, 1853.
• Read this pair of articles in Hutchings' California Magazine to learn about the tools used in the Gold Rush era. You will need the freely-available Adobe Acrobat Reader Utility to be installed on your system to download to read these articles. Once it's installed to your system, follow the links below to download and read the articles. They are fairly large files, so it will take a little while to download. But, it's worth the wait!
  • July, 1857 Edition (About 350 KB)
  • September 1857 Edition (About 875 KB)
• Visit these Gold Rush Sites for more gold rush history.
• Visit the Rosemead Library Californiana Collection Page.This collection features materials documenting the development of California and Los Angeles County since it was established early in this century and it's available for Rosemead Library patrons and California Gold Rush History enthusiasts during the Rosemead Library's regular business hours.

For more information on the Californiana Collection or other Rosemead Library holdings and services, contact Beth Krupsaw, California Collection Library, at (626) 573-5220.

So, what are you waiting for? Visit the Rosemead Library and see the Californiana Collection, now. Check the Web Pages! http://www.colapublib.org/libs/rosemead/ http://colapublib.org/services/collections/californiana/

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