gold rush, California

Cultural  

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

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Example Sentences

The book, however, offers readers a detailed treatment of the bloody Gold Rush California milieu in which Murrieta moved.

From The Wall Street Journal

Gold rush: California’s winter storms excited prospectors.

From New York Times

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

From Washington Post

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.

From New York Times

By the mid-1850s, Spain seemed all but forgotten as El Clamor Público in Los Angeles advocated the civil rights of Mexicans and decried the “lynchocracy” imposed by vigilantes in Gold Rush California.

From Washington Post