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The California Gold Rush

In Our Time

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California, the State of California, Is a Pacific Power

California was known then for the following century as a real agricultural state. By 1857, you've got a mint there. And one thing that we haven't mentioned, which you may want to continue, is it becomes a Pacific power because it's the gateway to the world. You get to California, your chances of making it big, so it has a continuing flow of entrepreneurs and people who want to work hard and make it. But he'd never stopped, did it, this economic process, right through to Hollywood and Silicon Valley? Well, it didn't stop partly because it was a, began a sparsely populated, as Frank said, so there's a lot of territory.

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