Gold! Gold! Gold! The California Gold Rush was the biggest and the richest of them all.

GOLD! GOLD! GOLD! The California Gold Rush was the biggest and the richest of them all, but it was no different from any of those that followed in providing the majority of its participants with much rushing and little gold. When forty-niners reminisced through beards grown longer and whiter, the strikes of the past became richer and the nuggets bigger, but the mournful truth is that most gold hunters would have done better financially staying …

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