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 Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:46 pm
POSTED BY REQUEST OF THE SHERIFF AND TOWNSFOLK
In this here Wild West; Gold Rush Role play subforum, there is to be none of the following:
Harassment
Spamming
Bumping
Godmoding
etcetc
Anything that breaks guild rules or Gaian T.O.S. is forbidden!
What threads are allowed here?
Threads pertaining to a role play based upon the gold rush are allowed here. Other role playing threads have different subforums! Please make only one thread for recruiting/role playing per role play to keep the forums clean.
Keep it PG13, folks!
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:35 am
You open a dusty old library book, and inside are handwritten pages full of legacies and history. You feel yourself being sucked in, engrossed in the story of the Californian Gold Rush of 1849.
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:46 am
GENERAL HISTORY - How did the rush start?
January, 1848. James Wilson Marshall discovers the first of the gold while building a saw mill along the American river, just northeast of where Sacramento stands today. In March, the discovery made the San Francisco paper, but no one believed it, and the discovery was let go with a simple glance to the paper.
In May of 1848, Sam Brannan (a Sutter's Creek shopkeeper) ran about San Francisco waving a glass bottle filled with gold dust over his head. He got the resident's attention by shouting "Gold! Gold! Gold from American River!" Now that proof was presented to the people, crowds rushed to where the gold was discovered.
Shortly after, the San Francisco harbor was abandoned, the ships too. Crews left their ships, workers left their jobs...the newspapers for the town shut down because the staff up and quit. Struck by "gold fever", they called it. Population of coastal towns dropped dramatically, as everyone moved to the gold fields.
A few months later, in August, the New York Herald finally printed news of the gold discovery. The number of people suddenly struck by "gold fever" increased dramatically when the article was printed.
Between this time and December of 1849, the population of the town (which consisted of 79 rickety buildings) mushroomed to 100,000. People sought transportation by land and by sea, filling the ships and caravans.
Because of the rush, the amount of American citizens exploded in numbers, overruling the Mexican influence in the area, allowing California to later become a state of the Union.
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:48 am
Reserved - ways of travel & living
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:49 am
Reserved - important people & places
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:50 am
Reserved - the gold itself
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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 11:33 am
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