The Stampede that Changed the World
by
Mark A. Eifler
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
In January of 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. For a year afterward, news of this discovery spread outward from California and started a mass migration to the gold fields. Thousands of people from the East Coast aspiring to start new lives...