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Gold Rush Web Links Web sites that provide historical background on the California Gold Rush

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/calheritage

This site contains thousands of scanned images taken from the Bancroft Library collection at UC Berkeley covering the history of California. It includes pictures of Gold Rush boom towns. The site's search engine makes finding images a breeze.

http://www.ccnet.com/~laplaza/calhist.htm

A nice overview of early California Gold Rush History through the Gold Rush era is available at this site.

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~scring/index.html

The full text of a journal kept by a Forty-Niner during his trip around Cape Horn to the gold fields of California is available here.

http://www.malakoff.com/vcgc.htm

Good, brief histories of the major towns that sprang up during the Gold Rush are available here.

http://www.getgold.com/150-links.htm

This site is full of information, including James Marshall's description of the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848.

http://www.museumca.org/goldrush.html

The Oakland museum has put together a fantastic site, full of information on the people who came to find their fortune in California.

http://www.calgoldrush.com

This site, sponsored by the Sacramento Bee, has lots of information about the Gold Rush in the Sacramento Area.

If you're thinking of traveling in the Gold Country, the following sites might prove useful:

• http://gocalif.ca.gov/guidebook/GC
  This is the official page of the California Department of Tourism. It provides links to places of interest all over the state.
• Amador County
  URL: http://www.amadornet.net
• Butte County
  URL: http://www.shastacascade.org/butte/bupage.htm
• Calaveras County
  URL: http://www.calaveras.org/visit.html
• El Dorado County
  URL: http://www.el-dorado.ca.us
• Mariposa County
  URL: http://mariposa.yosemite.net/visitor/
• Nevada County
  URL: http://www.websterweb.com
• Placer County
  URL: http://www.placer.ca.gov/visit/
• Plumas County
  URL: http://www.shastacascade.org/plumas/plpage.htm
• Siskiyou County
  URL: http://www.shastacascade.org/siskiyou/sipage.htm
• Trinity County
  URL: http://www.shastacascade.org/trinity/trpage.htm
• Tuolumne County
  URL: http://www.yosemite.com/county/tuolumne/poidiv.htm

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