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I don't think this fits any of the exceptions to the general rule calling for lower case after the first word in article titles. Jonathunder 01:32, 2005 Jan 24 (UTC)
In the article it says that Sutter found the first gold on 24 January 1848, and that immigrants arrived from China seeking gold nine days later. It seems that either the date or the reason for the immigration is wrong here; or was it a coincidence? -- iMb~ Meow 11:35, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The California Gold Rush was a period in American history marked by great world-wide interest concerning a gold discovery in Northern California. The period is marked by mass migrations into California by people, at first almost exclusively men, seeking an easy fortune. Some achieved their goal and became rich. Most, however, found only enough gold to barely pay their daily expenses. The California Gold Rush is generally considered to have ended in 1858, when the New Mexican Gold Rush began.
The rush started at Sutter's Mill near Coloma, California on January 24, 1848 when James W. Marshall, an employee of Sacramento agriculturist John Sutter, found a gold nugget. Actually, Marshall did not say that he had discovered gold; nor did he use the word "gold" or "nugget." What he said was that he had discovered a chispa, which is Spanish for "bright speck" or "spangle." That he should have used this term is some indication of how widely Spanish mining practices, and the Spanish mining vocabulary, had permeated California prior to 1848. Sutter wanted to suppress the fact that he had found gold because he was more concerned with expanding his utopian ideal of an agricultural empire than finding fortune in the cold American River.
But rumors soon surfaced, and were confirmed by San Francisco newspaper publisher and merchant Samuel Brannan in March. On August 19, 1848 the New York Herald was the first newspaper on the East Coast of the United States to confirm that there was a gold rush in California; by December 5, 1848, even the President of the United States would announce this before Congress. Soon the inevitable wave of immigration from around the world called the "49ers" invaded what would be called the Gold Country of California. As he predicted when he saw the gold nugget, Sutter was ruined as more and more of his agricultural workers left in search of gold and squatters invaded his land and stole his crops.
The Gold Rush prompted considerable development in California, and sparked the building of the Panama Railway. The city of San Francisco at first became a ghost town of abandoned ships and businesses whose owners had decided to join in the rush, and then, slightly later, boomed as miners returned rich or, more often, broke and looking for wages. Pioneer Ivan McAmmon was the first in the city to demand what he called "fair wage" as a shopkeeper. The population of San Francisco exploded from a mere 1,000 in 1848 to 20,000 full-time residents by 1850. Like many cities of the 19th century, the infrastructure of San Francisco and other boom towns near the fields was strained by the sudden influx; leftover cigar boxes and planks would serve as sidewalks, and crime became a problem, causing vigilantes to rise up and serve the populace in the absence of police. Also, the large number of settlers who moved to California resulted in the area becoming a state only two years after the end of the Mexican-American War. California was admitted to the Union in the Compromise of 1850 as the 31st State.
The San Francisco 49ers NFL team is named for the prospectors of the California Gold Rush. [edit]
See also
Anyone interested in editing this article will likely find it interesting to check the Peer Review discussion page (or see infobox, above) before making any edits to this article. The recent additions/changes are the result of Peer Review suggestions made in that process. Please click the words "A request has been made" at the top of this page. NorCalHistory 18:45, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't know what previous versions of this article looked like, but I think it would have more visual impact if one of the images could be moved to the top of the article. That "History of CA" box is certainly useful, but its placement at the very top tends to understate the importance of the event. Just a thought. -- cholmes75 ( chit chat) 03:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
I noticed a mention of the SS Central America in the article. You could also incorporate a mention of the Winfield Scott, which sank off the CA coast in 1853. -- cholmes75 ( chit chat) 03:30, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
I first read this article in the early stages of peer review. The editors here have done a fine job of improving it. In my opinion you're safely into good article territory and possibly featured article quality. I've recused myself from awarding GA because I participated in peer review, but since that's about to close I recommend you open a good article nomination. Warmly, Durova 23:46, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Many thanks to everyone who contributed suggestions and editorial comments during the recent peer review of this article. The peer review has just closed and is available for your reading.
Following up on the suggestions in that peer review, I would like to suggest that this article be submitted for good article or featured article status. Responses please! NorCalHistory 10:21, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
The following is a quote from Wikipedia:Citing_sources
(emphasis added)
The same information appears at WP:LAYOUT - namely that the Further Reading (or Bibliography) section is intended for sources not used as sources for the article. If you agree that those directions are correct, Rjensen, would you be kind enough to undo the mixing of the source and non-source material within the "Bibliography" section - which I would suggest is better named "Further Reading" since that does appear to be the more descriptive title.
Also, it appears that we lost the "Notes" header and section after "See Also" and before "References." NorCalHistory 11:21, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
The Gold Rush is one of a handful of defining moments for California. As historian Kevin Starr said, the Gold Rush really set the DNA of the state, and put in motion attitudes and dynamics which continue to this day. Also, the quality, IMHO, is FA status. NorCalHistory 05:20, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Should the article go through the "Good Article" process first? That seems to be a track that many articles follow. If there could be a Good Article nomination, that might help polish the article for the FA process. NorCalHistory 00:07, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
See top of page...
Thanks, Paul for your edits. I've noticed that the ordinary style seems to be not to include citations in the Introduction section, but rather to include in the main text the citations for the facts and quotes which appear in the Introduction. I think that one of the peer reviewers had the same assessment.
The cite for the "world-class" quote in the Introduction is at Note 84 in the main text. If you think that the citation should also appear in the Introduction section, I suppose that you could add the citation information as a new footnote in the Introduction as well (see complete Hill, 1999 information at Note 79). Thanks again! NorCalHistory 18:10, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Paul - here's the comment during the peer review (now archived) which led to the change in the title of the first section -
The intent was to find another title which was more closely descriptive, rather than simply "History" in an article about history. NorCalHistory 06:19, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
After it was built, I was wandering where abouts specifically the California railroad exactly began and ended, and also how long the journey would have taken.
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I don't think this fits any of the exceptions to the general rule calling for lower case after the first word in article titles. Jonathunder 01:32, 2005 Jan 24 (UTC)
In the article it says that Sutter found the first gold on 24 January 1848, and that immigrants arrived from China seeking gold nine days later. It seems that either the date or the reason for the immigration is wrong here; or was it a coincidence? -- iMb~ Meow 11:35, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The California Gold Rush was a period in American history marked by great world-wide interest concerning a gold discovery in Northern California. The period is marked by mass migrations into California by people, at first almost exclusively men, seeking an easy fortune. Some achieved their goal and became rich. Most, however, found only enough gold to barely pay their daily expenses. The California Gold Rush is generally considered to have ended in 1858, when the New Mexican Gold Rush began.
The rush started at Sutter's Mill near Coloma, California on January 24, 1848 when James W. Marshall, an employee of Sacramento agriculturist John Sutter, found a gold nugget. Actually, Marshall did not say that he had discovered gold; nor did he use the word "gold" or "nugget." What he said was that he had discovered a chispa, which is Spanish for "bright speck" or "spangle." That he should have used this term is some indication of how widely Spanish mining practices, and the Spanish mining vocabulary, had permeated California prior to 1848. Sutter wanted to suppress the fact that he had found gold because he was more concerned with expanding his utopian ideal of an agricultural empire than finding fortune in the cold American River.
But rumors soon surfaced, and were confirmed by San Francisco newspaper publisher and merchant Samuel Brannan in March. On August 19, 1848 the New York Herald was the first newspaper on the East Coast of the United States to confirm that there was a gold rush in California; by December 5, 1848, even the President of the United States would announce this before Congress. Soon the inevitable wave of immigration from around the world called the "49ers" invaded what would be called the Gold Country of California. As he predicted when he saw the gold nugget, Sutter was ruined as more and more of his agricultural workers left in search of gold and squatters invaded his land and stole his crops.
The Gold Rush prompted considerable development in California, and sparked the building of the Panama Railway. The city of San Francisco at first became a ghost town of abandoned ships and businesses whose owners had decided to join in the rush, and then, slightly later, boomed as miners returned rich or, more often, broke and looking for wages. Pioneer Ivan McAmmon was the first in the city to demand what he called "fair wage" as a shopkeeper. The population of San Francisco exploded from a mere 1,000 in 1848 to 20,000 full-time residents by 1850. Like many cities of the 19th century, the infrastructure of San Francisco and other boom towns near the fields was strained by the sudden influx; leftover cigar boxes and planks would serve as sidewalks, and crime became a problem, causing vigilantes to rise up and serve the populace in the absence of police. Also, the large number of settlers who moved to California resulted in the area becoming a state only two years after the end of the Mexican-American War. California was admitted to the Union in the Compromise of 1850 as the 31st State.
The San Francisco 49ers NFL team is named for the prospectors of the California Gold Rush. [edit]
See also
Anyone interested in editing this article will likely find it interesting to check the Peer Review discussion page (or see infobox, above) before making any edits to this article. The recent additions/changes are the result of Peer Review suggestions made in that process. Please click the words "A request has been made" at the top of this page. NorCalHistory 18:45, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
I don't know what previous versions of this article looked like, but I think it would have more visual impact if one of the images could be moved to the top of the article. That "History of CA" box is certainly useful, but its placement at the very top tends to understate the importance of the event. Just a thought. -- cholmes75 ( chit chat) 03:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
I noticed a mention of the SS Central America in the article. You could also incorporate a mention of the Winfield Scott, which sank off the CA coast in 1853. -- cholmes75 ( chit chat) 03:30, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
I first read this article in the early stages of peer review. The editors here have done a fine job of improving it. In my opinion you're safely into good article territory and possibly featured article quality. I've recused myself from awarding GA because I participated in peer review, but since that's about to close I recommend you open a good article nomination. Warmly, Durova 23:46, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Many thanks to everyone who contributed suggestions and editorial comments during the recent peer review of this article. The peer review has just closed and is available for your reading.
Following up on the suggestions in that peer review, I would like to suggest that this article be submitted for good article or featured article status. Responses please! NorCalHistory 10:21, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
The following is a quote from Wikipedia:Citing_sources
(emphasis added)
The same information appears at WP:LAYOUT - namely that the Further Reading (or Bibliography) section is intended for sources not used as sources for the article. If you agree that those directions are correct, Rjensen, would you be kind enough to undo the mixing of the source and non-source material within the "Bibliography" section - which I would suggest is better named "Further Reading" since that does appear to be the more descriptive title.
Also, it appears that we lost the "Notes" header and section after "See Also" and before "References." NorCalHistory 11:21, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
The Gold Rush is one of a handful of defining moments for California. As historian Kevin Starr said, the Gold Rush really set the DNA of the state, and put in motion attitudes and dynamics which continue to this day. Also, the quality, IMHO, is FA status. NorCalHistory 05:20, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Should the article go through the "Good Article" process first? That seems to be a track that many articles follow. If there could be a Good Article nomination, that might help polish the article for the FA process. NorCalHistory 00:07, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
See top of page...
Thanks, Paul for your edits. I've noticed that the ordinary style seems to be not to include citations in the Introduction section, but rather to include in the main text the citations for the facts and quotes which appear in the Introduction. I think that one of the peer reviewers had the same assessment.
The cite for the "world-class" quote in the Introduction is at Note 84 in the main text. If you think that the citation should also appear in the Introduction section, I suppose that you could add the citation information as a new footnote in the Introduction as well (see complete Hill, 1999 information at Note 79). Thanks again! NorCalHistory 18:10, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
Paul - here's the comment during the peer review (now archived) which led to the change in the title of the first section -
The intent was to find another title which was more closely descriptive, rather than simply "History" in an article about history. NorCalHistory 06:19, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
After it was built, I was wandering where abouts specifically the California railroad exactly began and ended, and also how long the journey would have taken.