In January 1848 at Sutter\'s Mill, California, a carpenter named James Marshall found several nuggets of gold, the largest of which weighed over a quarter of an ounce.
Now the excitement and rags-to-riches glamour of the Gold Rush era has been captured in this treasury of accurat.
The news quickly reached San Francisco and by March, the great California Gold Rush was on Boom towns and miner\'s camps sprang up across the state as fortune-hunters from all over the world came to try their luck.
In January 1848 at Sutter\'s Mill, California, a carpenter named James Marshall found several nuggets of gold, the largest of which weighed over a quarter of an ounce