![]() They were there when the first people who saw the gold were laughed at and called crackbrains. They saw the first samples of gold brought to the quartermaster, who said they were flakes of yellow mica. ![]() ![]() This novel tells the unforgettable story of how these people walked into one of the most spectacular adventures in the world’s history. These were the people who went up to the hills and came back staggering under the weight of the treasure they carried, and who began transforming San Francisco from a shantytown into one of the most brilliant cities in the world. This thrilling story of the California gold rush is not about the forty niners, the prospectors who came rushing to the San Francisco area in 1849, but about the men and women who were there when it all began with the first discovery of gold in 1848, when San Francisco was a village of 900 people. ![]()
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