gold rush, California

1. The movement of great numbers of people to California after gold was discovered there in 1848. (See forty-niners.)

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Gold rush: California’s winter storms excited prospectors.

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Dragged west to Gold Rush California from Michigan by her bully of a husband, liberated by a bullet that turned her into a widow, she considered her future in the windswept port town of Monterey.

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“A Dangerous Business,” a murder mystery set in Gold Rush California, will be published in December.

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What rings as fact in “Blood and Gold” is that Murrieta and his fellow Mexicans had every right to go on rampages in Gold Rush California due to the loss of land and lynchings they endured.

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But the history of Asian-American cuisine goes further back than that, to the first tearooms and banquet halls set up by Chinese immigrants who came to seek their fortune in Gold Rush California in the 1850s.

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