California Gold Rush | Digging Deeper | 4
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As San Francisco matured in the 1850s, it began to attract a new type of person One not seeking a quick windfall from the mines but success and more established respectable businesses. A growing number of ex-miners were also settling down to do steadier work As a result, a more conventional civic-minded attitude took hold in San Francisco. These new respectable types decided they didn't much like the unruly miners and hustlers who made the city in the first place. If you had the chance to be brought back to life hundreds of years in the future, would you take it? Lauren's Pilgrim, a lifelong scientist, planned for death his entire life Because for him, death wasn
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