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Summary
Describes the events surrounding the discovery of gold in California, the huge migration it brought to the area, and the lifestyles of miners and mining towns. Full description
Series: The way people live
Life in ancient Rome
Life on a medieval pilgrimage
Life in the Elizabethan theater
Life in the North during the Civil War
Life in the South during the Civil War
Life among the Great Plains Indians
Life among the Ibo women of Nigeria
Life among the Indian fighters
Life during the crusades
Life during the gold rush
Life during the Great Depression
Life during the Middle Ages
Life during the Russian revolution
Life during the Spanish Inquisition
Life in a Japanese American internment camp
Life of a Roman slave
Life among the pirates
Life among the samurai
Life in a wild west show
Life in Charles Dickens's England
Life in the American colonies
Life on the American frontier
Life on the Oregon Trail
Games of ancient Rome
Life in a medieval castle
Life in ancient Athens
Life in the Hitler Youth
Life of a slave on a Southern plantation
Life on Ellis Island
Life on the Underground Railroad
Life under the Jim Crow laws
Life in a medieval monastery
Life in a Nazi concentration camp
Life in America during the 1960s
Life in ancient China
Life in ancient Egypt
Life in Communist Russia
Life in Genghis Khan's Mongolia
Life in Moscow
Life of a Medieval knight
Life of a Nazi soldier
Life on an African slave ship
Life on an Everest expedition
Life on the Pony Express
Life aboard the space shuttle
Life during the American Revolution
Life in a California mission
Life in a medieval village
Life in the Australian Outback
Life among the Aztec
Life among the Inca
Life during the Dust Bowl
Life in Castro's Cuba
Life aboard a space station
Life on a New World voyage
Life under the Taliban