User:MacGyverMagic/Discussions/Gold

Gold rush

 * Clicking the above edit link will send you to a subpage of my userspace, so I don't lose this thing in the archives.

I remember editing an article about some American creek that has a significant connection to one of the gold rushes; if I remember it was the place where a find was made that intiated one. Unfortunately, the toolserver is down and because I did only a minor edit, I don't think I recorded it on my userpage. Can anyone help me track down the article I'm looking for? In case someone can do a query on my edits, I'm pretty sure the title of the page includes the word "Creek" - Mgm|(talk) 11:55, 27 September 2007 (UTC)


 * The only mainspace edits I can find by you to articles including the word "creek" in the title are to Bull Creek (a dab page), and Treaty of Buffalo Creek (a treaty with the Native Americans). DuncanHill 13:06, 27 September 2007 (UTC)


 * You might be thinking of Sutter Creek, California, which was founded by the owner of Sutter's Mill, where the California Gold Rush started. -- LarryMac  | Talk  13:42, 27 September 2007 (UTC)


 * A huge western migration occurred in America with the discovery of gold by James Marshall at Sutter's Mill on the American River, on January 24, 1848. Due to the length of time for communication to travel across country, time to travel across country or around South America (which took months or near a year) to the West Coast of California, the "Gold Rush" occurred mainly in 1849, thus the term, "49ers", or "forty-niners".

I don't think there's any article for "creek" which initiated a gold rush. I am aware that gold was actually discovered earlier than Marshall's find in southern California, I believe near Los Angeles. Little happened with people going there to find gold.

Try a search for California gold rush, forty-niners, California Mother Lode, State of California website, James Marshall, and Coloma State Park (I think) where the original Sutter's Mill was.

By the way, it's said that only about an estimated 20% has been found in the "Mother Lode" area of Califoria. Good luck....very interesting history to be learned regarding many aspects of the gold rush, migration, and peoples experiences.


 * There's also Rock Creek Gold Rush, Gold Creek (Montana), Cripple Creek, Colorado, the Klondike Gold Rush which started in rabbit creek. This google search is your friend. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tagishsimon (talk • contribs) 19:04, 27 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, thanks for the effort guys... Not sure if it's in there, but I will definitely go through the lot. Good thing I have a script that highlights my name in edit histories. Would it help if I said I found info about the place in the first book of an print version of EB? - Mgm|(talk) 17:04, 28 September 2007 (UTC)