Of coarse Hargraves was not the first person to discover gold in Australia.

Popular names during the gold rush. The three authors of the 1854 classic Annals of San Francisco described the frenetic mood of the Gold Rush city in ways that sound oddly familiar today. When the Gold Rush started Brannan made a lot of money selling supplies to the miners. Mark Twain later became a famous author that wrote quite.

Belinda Mulroney was the most successful business woman during the Klondike Gold Rush. Digging old out of cracks in the rocks or from dry river beds. David Goodman Gold Seeking.

This is a list of people associated with the California Gold Rush in Northern California during the period from 1848 to 1855. An actress known as Mrs. Pretty soon little Lotta was bringing in 13 in gold every night -far more than her luckless father had ever found.

Most of Jackson like many other gold rush towns was destroyed by fire in 1862 and rebuilt and many of the historic buildings you see today are from that era. A third example of a successful Businessman was Samuel Clemens better known as Mark Twain. Their company became a well known and famous bank.

Wells Fargo still is a big bank today. Kirby could have set a precedent for Elizabeth Taylor. Soon enough he was the first millionare of the Gold Rush.

Sam Brannan died in. Jackson named after Colonel Alden Jackson was founded in 1848. Victoria and California in the 1850s Stanford.