The purpose of this exercise is to collect all the information you know in one place so you can review and examine it as a whole instead of just looking at isolated bits and pieces.

Popular names during the gold rush. Bennett present at the first discovery of gold Samuel Brannan. Victoria and California in the 1850s Stanford. Her first husband whose name she retained at this time for professional purposes was an English actor so noted for his dramatic death throes that a phrase coined by bored theatre-goers Wake me up when Kirby dies became popular.

Youll mine these sources for clues and use your biographical sketch to evaluate whether any new record belongs to your ancestor or someone else with the same name. Hargraves first big discovery was in the Bathurst region of New South Wales. Belinda Mulroney was the most successful business woman during the Klondike Gold Rush.

Robyn Annear Nothing but Gold. Thus Frank Lavarers name occurs as both Lavarer and Levarer. David Goodman Gold Seeking.

When the Gold Rush started Brannan made a lot of money selling supplies to the miners. Performed by Logan English and Billy Faier this collection represents a specific historical time period. Their bank was called Wells Fargo.

A third example of a successful Businessman was Samuel Clemens better known as Mark Twain. She built a roadhouse a type of hotel that was very popular. This is a list of people associated with the California Gold Rush in Northern California during the period from 1848 to 1855.

Digging old out of cracks in the rocks or from dry river beds. The songs tell of the excitement of the Gold Rush as well as the gritty. The name given to placer mining places during the gold rush.