At the end of 1853, San Francisco was a city on the fast track, but just a few years earlier the seaside town had been a sleepy village of just 800 people. All that changed on the sight of gold in the waters of the American River, which would set the stage for an event that would forever change a city, a fledgling state, and the nation... The Gold Rush of 1848 was a remarkably international where, goldseekers from Oregon and the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), Mexico, Chile, England, France, Australia, Ireland and China migrated to California and were soon knee-deep in... the diggings. From the easy riches of the first few months, to the point of fierce competition, where as the diggings became oppressively crowded, Americans drove foreigners from the mines, this film offers a vivid portrait of a seminal event in America's history. [show more]
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