Isabel Blackford Stage 3

Annotated

1. Gudde, Erwin G. 2009. California Gold Camps: A Geographical and Historical Dictionary of Camps, Towns, and Localities Where Gold Was Found and Mined; Wayside Stations and Trading Centers. Univ of California Press.

This source names all of the mining settlements that popped up during the California Gold Rush along with a quick summary of each town. This will prove helpful as I am using this source to map out all of the new mining settlements that came to be during the gold rush.

2. Phelps, Robert. “‘All Hands Have Gone Downtown’: Urban Places in Gold Rush California.” California History 79, no. 2 (2000): 113–40. https://doi.org/10.2307/25463690.

The article gives a description of gold rush towns allowing there to be a more accurate visualization. This source will be useful as it describes what urbanization is and how it is applied to the gold rush.

3. Mann, Ralph. “The Decade after the Gold Rush: Social Structure in Grass Valley and Nevada City, California, 1850-1860.” Pacific Historical Review 41, no. 4 (1972): 484–504. https://doi.org/10.2307/3638397.

This article details two cities and how they both flourished during the gold rush, and once the gold rush ended one was more successful than the other. This will be beneficial as in my story map I plan on comparing and contrasting two gold rush towns and why one was successful and why one is nothing more than a ghost town now.

4. Jolly, Michelle Elizabeth. Inventing the City: Gender and the Politics of Everyday Life in Gold-Rush San Francisco, 1848-1869, 1998.

This article talks about the gender imbalance in San Francisco and how that was attributed to the influx of men traveling to California in search of gold. This will prove helpful with my project as I will map show the gender imbalance in my map and through this article I will be able to prove that this is because of the influx of male settlers from the gold rush.

5. Zhang, Nan, and Maria Abascal. “Cultural Adaptation and Demographic Change: Evidence from Mexican-American Naming Patterns after the California Gold Rush.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 50, no. 1 (2024): 132–48. doi:10.1080/1369183X.2023.2259039.

This article analyses the native population of California before the gold rush and how the occurrence of the gold rush changed the actions of those who lived their prior to the massive influx of those looking to strike rich on gold. This will prove helpful as I analyze the data from before the gold rush to after it has concluded.

6. Epstein, Terrie. “The Pride and Pain of Chinese Immigration: Folk Rhymes from San Francisco’s Chinatown.” OAH Magazine of History 5, no. 2 (1990): 51–54. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25162737.

This article details the experience of Chinese immigrants during the gold rush and how discrimination led to a significant number returning to China. While mapping out the different demographics this article will help explain some of the migration patterns of Chinese immigrants and why living in California was difficult specifically for them.

7.Roth, Mitchel. “Cholera, Community, and Public Health in Gold Rush Sacramento and San Francisco.” Pacific Historical Review 66, no. 4 (1997): 527–51. https://doi.org/10.2307/3642236.

This article talks about how the cholera epidemic spread from the eastern half of the United States to the west coast during the gold rush. Disease especially ran rampant due to the gold rush towns because the towns were not built with sanitation in mind in terms of infrastructure. This will help for demonstrating how little preparation went into these towns when they sprung up.

8. Chan, Sucheng. “A People of Exceptional Character: Ethnic Diversity, Nativism, and Racism in the California Gold Rush.” California History 79, no. 2 (2000): 44–85. https://doi.org/10.2307/25463688.

This article points out the vast diversity that California has always had from the multitude of Native American tribes to what California is today. The demographic information in this article will be useful by providing a snapshot into how the diversification of California has changed over the course of time.

9. Wood, Warren C. “Fraud and the California State Census of 1852: Power and Demographic Distortion in Gold Rush California.” Southern California Quarterly 100, no. 1 (2018): 5–43. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26413484.

This article offers some information regarding census data that I will be using for this project and giving insight that not all the information can be guaranteed to be true. This allows the information to be taken with a grain a salt and to be looked at in a way that allows the data to be further analyzed.

10. Rohrbough, Malcolm. “No Boy’s Play: Migration and Settlement in Early Gold Rush California.” California History 79, no. 2 (2000): 25–43. https://doi.org/10.2307/25463687.

This article gives some insight on the migration to California during the gold rush and the events that led up to thousands moving across the country, and the world in hopes of finding gold. This will be helpful to explain why people were migrating, especially as I map out the increase in population over time.

Secondary sources

1. Pio, Jason Gauthier History Staff. n.d. “January 2017 – History – U.S. Census Bureau.” https://www.census.gov/history/www/homepage_archive/2018/january_2018.html.
2. “From Gold Rush to Golden State  | Early California History: An Overview  | Articles and Essays  | California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California’s Early Years, 1849-1900  | Digital Collections  | Library of Congress.” n.d. The Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/collections/california-first-person-narratives/articles-and-essays/early-california-history/from-gold-rush-to-golden-state/.
3. American Experience, PBS. 2017. “The California Gold Rush.” American Experience | PBS, October 11, 2017. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldrush-california/.
4. “Resource 6-1a: California Population by Ethnic Groups, 1790-1880.” n.d. https://explore.museumca.org/goldrush/curriculum/1stcalifornians/resourcesix.htm.
5. “Tribes – Native Voices.” n.d. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/311.html.
6. American Experience, PBS. 2017a. “The Gold Rush Impact on Native Tribes.” American Experience | PBS, September 18, 2017. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/goldrush-value-land/.
7. “The Growth of Cities in the Gold Rush Era.” n.d. Calisphere. https://calisphere.org/exhibitions/15/growth-of-cities-in-the-gold-rush-era/#:~:text=Cities%20up%20and%20down%20the,an%20impact%20on%20its%20geography.
8. “San Francisco | History, Population, Climate, Map, & Facts.” 2024. Encyclopedia Britannica. April 2, 2024. https://www.britannica.com/place/San-Francisco-California/The-growth-of-the-metropolis.
9. “Historical Impact of the California Gold Rush.” n.d. Norwich University – Online. https://online.norwich.edu/historical-impact-california-gold-rush.
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