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Fraser River Gold Rush of 1858

In: Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West
Edited by: Gordon Morris Bakken & Alexandra Kindell
Subject:Migration

Gold fever brought the forty-niners to California in search of fortune. By 1858, most of the gold had been mined and thousands of miners stood idle or worked subsistence claims. News came that gold had been found on the Fraser River ...

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  Bakken, G. M., & Kindell, A. (2006). Fraser river gold rush of 1858. In Encyclopedia of immigration and migration in the American West (Vol. 1, pp. 243-243). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952439.n104
  
  Bakken, Gordon M., and Alexandra Kindell. "Fraser River Gold Rush of 1858." In Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West, edited by Bakken, Gordon Morris., and Alexandra Kindell, 243-243. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2006. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952439.n104.
  
  Bakken, G. M. and Kindell, A. 2006. Fraser River Gold Rush of 1858. In: Gordon M. Bakken and Alexandra Kindell Editors, 2006. Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 243 Available at: <https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952439.n104> [Accessed 11 Aug 2022].
  
  Bakken, Gordon M. and Alexandra Kindell. "Fraser River Gold Rush of 1858." Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West. Edited by Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2006, pp. 243-243. SAGE Knowledge. 11 Aug 2022, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952439.n104.
  
  Bakken, Gordon M., and Alexandra Kindell (2006). Fraser river gold rush of 1858 In:Fraser river gold rush of 1858 Encyclopedia of immigration and migration in the American West Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.; 2006:243-243. doi:10.4135/9781412952439.n104
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