Gold Rush Links

On this site, you will find primary and secondary sources, maps, photos,
audio clips, and a lot of history about California’s Gold Rush.
http://www.calgoldrush.com/

Want to learn more about Gold Fever and the Forty Niners? Check out this
site.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kids/goldrush/features.html

This is a kid friendly, online, reference library full of information about
our state’s Gold Rush.
http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/UsaHistory/CalGoldRush/CalGoldRush.htm

Need a timeline? This site will tell you what happened in Northern
California between 1848 and 1850.
http://www.calgoldrush.com/resources/gr_timeline.html

What about the women? This site has primary sources from a group that is
often overlooked in California’s Gold Rush history.
http://goldrush.com/~joann/women.htm

This site is from a San Francisco newpaper and is full of historical
accounts and photos. You’ll find the earliest photo of San Francisco from the
1850s.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/special/pages/1998/08/goldtrail/

This site is by the Oakland Museum and is full of untold stories from the
Gold Rush.
http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/

What to visit Sutter’s Fort? This site will show what it looked like then
and what it looks like today.
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/suttersfort/

Wonder what the Forty Niners thought and how they lived? This site is full
of primary sources. Read what the people who lived during the Gold Rush
wrote.
http://www.glittering.com/letters/index.html

Not only is this site loaded with facts, you’ll find some amazing,
unbelievable and just plain GROSS fun facts for kids.
http://www.pbs.org/goldrush/

Even though this is the last site listed, it is one of the BEST!!!!! Check
it out.
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/

NEW AND WONDERFUL SITE!!!! Check it out to learn about all kinds of
California history topics.
http://www.learncalifornia.org/doc.asp?id=104