California - Fall 2024 (HIST 27/127)

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California - Fall 2024 (HIST 27/127)

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The way they go to California
Gold rush cartoon, showing dock crowded with men with picks and shovels, and men jumping from the dock to reach departing ship; a crowded airship and a man on a rocket fly overhead; and a man with a pick and shovel parachutes from the airship.

Foreign Miners Tax documents, 1850-1867.
A foreign miners tax license.

Peter Hardeman Burnett - circa 1860
[Peter Hardeman Burnett (1807-1895), first Governor of California]

Laws of the State of California An act for the government and protection of Indians.
Act for the Government and Protection of Indians which was passed in California in 1850.

Gold Rush Era Chinese Emigrant
A Chinese emigrant from the Gold Rush Era.

Chinese Camp in the Mines
A group of Chinese miners in California.

Six months in the gold mines : from a journal of three years' residence in Upper and Lower California. 1847-8-9
Edward Gould Buffum writes a short passage about attacks of whites versus Indians.

Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian war of 1851, which led to that event
An account of discovering Yosemite Valley by Lafayette Houghton Bunnell, a member of the Mariposa Battallion. Tells encounters with native tribes
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