S2E12 - Think you know the Gold Rush? Think again! Trent and Marissa discuss the scams, the schemes, the gambling, the price-gouging, and the really, really long boat rides to California. The Gold Rush and its population boom caused a genocide of the Native Californian Peoples, the destruction of land, the growth of San Francisco and Sacramento, the construction of railroads, a wave of Chinese immigration, and many broken dreams.

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Produced and Edited by Trent Thomson and Marissa Macy

Sources 

The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War by Leonard L. Richards

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldrush-california/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldrush-samuel-brannan/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2bpBAXvJew