John Sutter

James Marshall

Sam Brannan

John Mohler Studebaker

Philip Danforth Armour

Levi Strauss

Mark Hopkins, Charles Crocker, Collis Potter Huntington, and Leland Stanford "known as the Big Four"

Scaramento in 1849

Coloma

Snowshoe Thompson

Placerville, California

Auburn, California

Black Bart

Henry Wells

William Fargo

The "Tommy Knockers"

Francisco Lopez

Chinese Immigration

Mark Twain

American River

Bret Harte

Native Americans in 1849

African-Americans in 1849

San Francisco

Angels Camp