Gold rushes: everything you wanted to know
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What Are the Biggest Gold Rushes of the Nineteenth Century?
Gold rush society probably thinks of itself as being the most significant. It is a 50 year period in which and the world is struck by repeated gold rushes. And california really, its significance is not only in the wealth it creates the mythologies around it,. But it really is the starting pistol for that half century of gold rushes.
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