January 24, 1848: The California Gold Rush Begins
James Marshall, a carpenter, discovered gold in the American river in California on this day in 1848. The resulting “gold rush” attracted approximately 300,000 people looking to make their fortune.
With fewer women in the population, men cooked for themselves with limited options. Check out PBS Food’s latest History Kitchen blog post to find out what forty-niners ate during the California’s gold rush.
Photo: A forty-niner peers into the slit of California’s American River, 1850 (Wikimedia Commons).
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