| "California,
Here We Come" Project 2008: Research Links
Gold
Rush Overview
The California
Gold Rush
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/peopleevents/e_goldrush.html
“Oakland
Museum of California’s exhibit ‘Gold Fever!’”
http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/fever.html
“Sacramento
Bee’s ‘The Gold Rush Series’”
http://www.calgoldrush.com/
The Gold
Rush’”
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/home.html
“The
Huntington Library Land of Golden Dreams”
http://www.huntington.org/Education/
GoldRush/advent/adindex.html
“The
California Gold Rush”
http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/Classes/
Social_Science/Gold_Rush/California.Gold.Rush.html
“Discovery”
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/discovery.html
“Discovery
of Gold”
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbgold.html
“Official
Report on the Gold Mines”
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/masonrpt.html
“Gold
Fever”
http://pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/goldfever.html
“Digital
History Feature – The Gold Rush”
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/
america6_brief/dig_hist/goldrush/
“The
California Gold Rush”
http://www.geocities.com/athens/oracle/4336/goldtext.html
“Gold
Country”
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/goldcountry.html
“Mining
Camps”
http://www.malakoff.com/tcgctmc.htm
“Towns
and Cities”
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbtowns.html
“’California
as I Saw It –
First Person Narratives of California’s Early Years’
from the Library of Congress”
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbhome.html
“Mining
Techniques”
http://www.notfrisco.com/calmem/goldrush/player-frowd.html
Gold Rush
Timeline
http://www.calgoldrush.com
Travel
to California
“The
Journey”
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/journey.html
“Oregon-California
Trail”
http://pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/journey_oregon.html
“Across
the Plains”
http://www.californiagenealogy.org/
forty_niner_two/across_the_plains.htm
“Panama
Shortcut”
http://pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/journey_panama.html
“The
Way by Panama”
http://www.californiagenealogy.org/
forty_niner_two/way_by_panama.htm
“Around
Cape Horn”
http://pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/journey_capehorn.html
“The
Journey by Sea”
http://www.calgoldrush.com/graphics/bysea.html
Gold
Rush Places and Maps
“Mining
Camps”
http://www.malakoff.com/tcgctmc.htm
“Towns and Cities”
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbtowns.html
Major “Strikes”
in the California Gold Rush
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/map/index.html
Prices of Goods and Services During the Gold Rush
“The
Diary of a Forty-Niner”
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/archive/dig_hist/goldrush/assets/doc_04.htm
Native Americans
Native
Americans in the Gold Rush
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/sfeature/natives.html
“First
Peoples of California”
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbpeople.html
“Gold
Fever! – California Indians”
http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/fever04-ci.html
“Indian
Tribes of California”
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/california/index.htm
Scroll
down to “6. How Did the Gold Rush Affect Native Americans?”
http://www.geocities.com/athens/oracle/4336/goldtext.html
“Indians’
Misfortune was Stamped in Gold”
http://www.calgoldrush.com/part3/03native.html
“Collision
of Cultures”
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/collision.html
Californios
“Mexican
California”
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbmexico.html
“The
Californios”
http://pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/california.html
“State’s
Latinos Lost in the Rush”
http://www.calgoldrush.com/part3/03mexicans.html
“Guadalupe
Vallejo”
http://pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/peopletoknow_vallejo.html
Antonio
Franco Coronel (1817 – 1894)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/peopleevents/p_coronel.html
“Mariano
Guadalupe Vallejo”
http://www.napanet.net/%7Esshpa/vall.htm
“Juana
Briones”
http://pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/peopletoknow_briones.html
“Who’s
Juanna?”
http://www.brioneshouse.org/juanas_life.htm
Scroll
down to #9. How Did the Gold Rush Affect the Spanish
http://www.geocities.com/athens/oracle/4336/goldtext.html
“Collision
of Cultures”
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/collision.html
Forty-niners
“The
Forty-niners”
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/discovery.html
“Journey
of the Forty-niners”
http://pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/journey.html
“Fever”
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/fever.html
“Despair”
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/despair.html
“Adventures
of a Forty-Niner”
http://www.californiagenealogy.org/forty_niner/
“Forty-Niners;
A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado,
by Stewart Edward White”
http://www.californiagenealogy.org/forty_niner_two/index.htm
“As
More Forty-Niners Arrived Illness Swept the Gold Fields”
http://www.ncgold.com/History/BecomingCA_Archive14.html
“The
Diary of a Forty-Niner”
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/
archive/dig_hist/goldrush/assets/doc_04.htm
Christmas
1851 – California Gold Rush Letter”
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/2323/grltr.htm
“Personal
adventures in Upper and Lower California, in 1848-9” http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/archive/
dig_hist/goldrush/assets/doc_03.htm
“The
Mines”
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cbhtml/cbmines.html
Hiram Pierce
(1810 – 1866)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/peopleevents/p_pierce.html
“Collision
of Cultures”
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/collision.html
African
Americans
“African
Ancestry in California” NOTE: scroll down to Gold Rush or
Black Mining Camps or Fighting Against Second-class Citizenship
http://www.afrigeneas.com/states/ca/index-links.html
Scroll
down to “8. How Did the Gold Rush Affect the African-Americans?”
http://www.geocities.com/athens/oracle/4336/goldtext.html
“Fortune
Smiled on Many Black Miners”
http://www.calgoldrush.com/part3/03blacks.html
“Negro
Rights Activities in Gold Rush California”
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/blackrights.html
“James
Beckwourth”
http://pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/peopletoknow_beckwourth.html
“Alvin
A. Coffey”
http://www.sfmuseum.org/bio/coffey.html
“Sylvia
Estes Stark”
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/exhibits/
timemach/galler10/frames/stark.htm
The
Chinese
Chinese
Immigrants and the Gold Rush
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/peopleevents/p_chinese.html
“Collision
of Cultures”
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/collision.html
“A
Retelling of Gold Rush History: The Lives of Chinese Miners”
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/oakland/culture/ninagr.html
“Chinese
Transformed Gold Mountain”
http://www.calgoldrush.com/part3/03asians.html
“The
Chinese”
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/chinhate.html
Scroll
down to “7. How Did the Gold Rush Affect Chinese?”
http://www.geocities.com/athens/oracle/4336/goldtext.html
“And
they Came to the Streets That Were Paved with Gold”
http://home.flash.net/~sondrine/historiangraph.html
“Chinese
Exclusion Act”
http://sun.menloschool.org/%7Embrody/ushistory/angel/exclusion_act/
Women
“No
Place for a Woman?”
http://www.malakoff.com/tcnpfaw.htm
“Women
in the Gold Rush”
http://www.goldrush.com/~joann/
“The
Foremothers Tell of Olden Times”
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/foremoms.html
“Eliza
Ann McAuley – Iowa to the “Land of Gold”
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/HNS/domwest/mcauley.html
Sara Pierce
(1814 - ?)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/goldrush/peopleevents/p_pierce.html
“Lotta
Crabtree”
http://pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/peopletoknow_crabtree.html
Scroll
down to “5. How Did the Gold Rush Affect Women?”
http://www.geocities.com/athens/oracle/4336/goldtext.html
“Real
Women Who Defied Stereotype”
http://www.calgoldrush.com/part3/03women.html
“Collision
of Cultures”
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/collision.html
Art,
Illustrations, and Photography of the Gold Rush
Art, Illustrations,
and Photography of the Gold Rush
http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/art.html
“Gold
Rush Scenes”
http://www.malakoff.com/grigrs.htm
Gold Rush Names Database
Resource
Links Collection developed by Cary Stolpestad - last updated 2.20.08 |
