The Great Gold Rush of 1849 was probably what a lot of people believe was the main reason the west got developed so quickly. Once news got back to the east coast it took no time at all for people to be packed up and ready to make a journy that could break them. It was a journy that could not be a positive success (About,1). In January 1848 James W. Marshall, a carpenter building a sawmill …showed first 75 words of 1162 total…

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