CSPAN3 Nome Cult Trail April 2, 2017
The world. It is also alumni glenn. With the discovery of gold not too far south of here and the inability to keep that discovery secret, the news quickly spread. And the ratio of settlers to native people began to radically shift. Prior to the gold rush, there would have been somewhere on the order of maybe under 5000 settlers in all of california. By 1855, that would have skyrocketed to above 50,000 settlers. And the relations were fraught. Not for every group at every moment, but there was a ...
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