NBC News Learn on the migration that gold set off
MAY 01 2020
A short educational segment from NBC News Learn on the 1848 discovery of gold in California and the mass movement west that followed. San Francisco went from a settlement of a few hundred to a city of tens of thousands within two years, and the merchants who supplied the miners took most of the money. Produced and published in 2020.
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