Anyway I will quit playing around and just go straight for the kill shot:
http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/goldrush.html
Its only a harvard document, so I'm sure its "dumb" in your eyes
Quote:
The great California gold rush began on January 24, 1848, when James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget in the American River while constructing a sawmill for John Sutter, a Sacramento agriculturalist. News of Marshall’s discovery brought thousands of immigrants to California from elsewhere in the United States and from other countries.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration
Bye.