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unusual facts about Gold Rush



14 Carrot Rabbit

The basic plot of 14 Carrot Rabbit takes place during the gold rush in The Klondike, Yukon, and centers on Yosemite Sam (here as Chilkoot Sam) whose attempts are to steal other people's gold.

Almaden Quicksilver County Park

The park is named after the New Almaden Quicksilver Mines, which were named after the mercury mine in (old) Almadén, Spain, and produced mercury that was used to process ore during the Gold Rush.

Black Beaver

When Captain Randolph B. Marcy escorted the first 500 emigrants from Fort Smith, Arkansas to Santa Fe during the gold rush days of 1849, he engaged Black Beaver as his guide.

Cariboo Gold Rush

One reason the Cariboo rush attracted fewer Americans than the original Fraser rush may have been the American Civil War, with many who had been around after the Fraser Gold Rush going home to take sides, or to the Fort Colville Gold Rush which was largely manned by men who had been on the Fraser or to other BC rushes such as those at Rock Creek and Big Bend.

Frank M. Pixley

Two years later he travelled to California during the Gold Rush, and spent two winters working mines on the Yuba River.

General Sutter

It is based on the life of John August Sutter, a Swiss-born figure who participated in the American gold rush in the years after the American Civil War.

Gold extraction

Hydraulic mining was used widely in the Californian gold rush, and involved breaking down alluvial deposits with high-pressure jets of water.

Jack Vance

Vance's grandfather supposedly arrived in California from Michigan a decade before the Gold Rush and married a San Francisco girl.

New Melones Lake

The Stanislaus River and environs experienced dramatic changes beginning with the Gold Rush.

Nonacquiescence

In one of the most serious instances of nonacquiesence in the U.S., U.S. President Andrew Jackson ignored the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that Georgia had stolen Cherokee lands for the Cherokee Land Lottery in the early 1830s, when the first gold rush occurred.

Perth Mint

During the 19th Century, three branches of the Royal Mint of London were established in the Australian colonies to refine gold from the gold rushes and to mint gold sovereigns and half-sovereigns for the British Empire.

Sam Poo

Poo was a Chinese emigrant to Australia during the Gold Rush, but instead of mining took to highway robbery on the road between Gulgong and Mudgee.

Seth Bullock

In August 1876, he and Star decided an untapped market for hardware existed in the gold rush town of Deadwood, South Dakota.

Siberian Husky

Dogs from the Anadyr River and surrounding regions were imported into Alaska from 1908 (and for the next two decades) during the gold rush for use as sled dogs, especially in the "All-Alaska Sweepstakes," a 408-mile (657-km) distance dog sled race from Nome, to Candle, and back.

The Grizzly and the Treasure

It is narrated by an elderly man (Scott Beach) with the accent of an old woodsman or prospector of 19th century gold rushes, much in the same style as early Disney nature specials.

Zee Telugu

By December 2005, despite having some popular programmes such as game show Gold Rush, hosted by popular female anchor Udayabhanu, as well as soap opera Nishabdam, overall Zee Telugu had only achieved a 1.24% weekday and 1.86% weekend market share in Andhra Pradesh.


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Alexander Peacock

Peacock was born of Scottish descent at Creswick, the first Victorian Premier born after the gold rush of the 1850s and the attainment of self-government in Victoria.

Alfred Arthur O'Connor

Alfred Arthur O'Connor was a wild-card Irish miner who attended the Melbourne Land Convention 1857 and was elected onto the Ballarat Mining Board 1858; he followed the big gold rush to Chiltern in 1859 and was a successful deep wet lead miner.

All Souls Umhlali

Kit wood-and-iron utility buildings, which were popular in the diamond rush to Kimberley and the gold rush to the Witwatersrand, came back into their own for military use.

Ballena, California

Ballena began in 1870, as a way stop and layover point for freight wagons, which provided fresh teams of horses and mules for the wagons on the road between the gold rush camps of Branson City, Coleman City, Eastwood and Julian and the ports of National City and San Diego.

Buckwheat Donahue

"He is a devotee of Robert Service whose poems paint the picture of Alaska during the Gold Rush. And he is, when you see him, the very visage of an Alaskan Sourdough."

Canadian Lead, New South Wales

Canadian Lead is a 19th-century gold rush town in the country of New South Wales, Australia.

Cariboo Plateau

The Cariboo Trail is a 1950 film about the gold rush era of the 1890s in the area.

Chalk Creek

St. Elmo, Hancock, and Alpine are towns that were founded and flourished with the gold rush.

Charlie Chaplin: Intimate Close-Ups

The book primarily chronicles Hale's love/hate relationship with Chaplin, from her initial infatuation with him as a child through her being chosen to co-star with him in Gold Rush, and entering into romance despite him being married to Lita Grey, to her temporary casting in City Lights as a replacement for the fired Virginia Cherrill, through to both hers and Chaplin's senior years.

Chitresh Das

In the San Francisco Bay Area, Chitresh Das and his Dance Company have been a mainstay of the local dance season and his company’s home season has included such masterpieces as “Gold Rush” (1990), “Sadhana” (1991), “East as Center” (2003), and his most recent award winning collaboration with tap dancer, Jason Samuels Smith, “IJS: India Jazz Suites” (2005 to present).

Claire Lawrence

In the 1970s he also produced The Great Canadian Gold Rush for CBC Radio, which was hosted by Terry David Mulligan.

Croydon, Queensland

Croydon was mentioned in the 1950 novel "A Town Like Alice" by Nevil Shute, as an example of a largely abandoned gold rush town.

George Randell

With the economy benefiting from the gold rush in the Coolgardie-Goldfields region, public attention turned to education.

Hammastunturi Wilderness Area

During the gold rush, around 1870, Kultala along the Ivalo River was a large village center inhabiting hundreds of people.

John C. Ainsworth

The Gold Rush did not live up to his expectations, so he found a job piloting a steamer on the Willamette River in Oregon.

Kakamega gold rush

The Kakamega gold rush occurred at Kakamega, Kenya in the early 1930s, fueled partly by the reports of the geologist Albert Ernest Kitson.

Milton S. Gould

In 1985 Gould's book "A Cast of Hawks" (Copley, 1985) ISBN 0-913938-28-9 was published which dealt with the background of the United States Supreme Court case In re Neagle that he termed "A Rowdy Tale of Scandal and Power Politics in Early San Francisco" from the gold rush of 1849, the debate in California about being a slave holding state in the 1850s and the wild west until the end of the century.

Mulrooney

Belinda Mulrooney (1872-1967), Irish-American entrepreneur who made a fortune in the Klondike Gold Rush

Neil Marshall

Marshall described the film, "It is set during the Gold Rush, a time remembered for incidents like the Donner Party. It is meant to be a pitch-black, gritty, period horror movie." The film will be themed on paranoia and isolation, and the director will draw inspiration from the 1982 film The Thing.

Ngarrabullgan

During the Hodgkinson River gold rush of the 1870s-1890'S the local Djungan population was decimated and the survivors were drawn to the fringes of mining settlements formed at Thornborough and Mount Mulligan.

Otago Gold Rush

Martin Curtis wrote a folk-style song about the gold rush called "Gin and Raspberry."

Parktown North

It is one of the older residential areas of the Northern Suburbs, having been created as a residential area for the poorer relatives of the Randlords who had built their mansions on Parktown Ridge during the early days of the Rand gold rush (during the 1890s).

Pauline Weaver

The discovery led to a gold rush and the establishment of La Paz, Arizona, now a ghost town.

Percy Douglas, 10th Marquess of Queensberry

He went as a gold prospector to Kalgoorlie, Australia, during the gold rush beginning in 1893, and later managed a road house in Canada.

Port Isabel, Sonora

Port Isabel was a seaport established in 1865 during the American Civil War in Sonora, Mexico near the mouth of the Colorado River on the Sea of Cortez to support the increased river traffic caused by the gold rush that began in 1862 on the Colorado River and the Yuma Quartermaster Depot newly established in 1864 to support the Army posts in the Arizona Military District.

Quin, County Clare

Paddy Hannan born in 1840, started the then world's biggest gold rush in 1893 in Kalgoorlie

Redeeming Love

Redeeming Love, by Francine Rivers is a historical romance novel set in the 1850s Gold Rush in California.

Rivera Department

Minas de Corrales a town established in 1879, during the Gold Rush times.

Safe as Milk

There was little record of his existence, though his name incidentally also appeared in a reference to an unproduced screenplay for After the Gold Rush on the 1971 Neil Young album of the same name.

Silliwood

Of course by that point the Internet gold rush was on, and Hollywood moved on to put its money into online experiments that fared about as well.

Snape, Suffolk

The discovery of the commercial viability of this process (by a Saxmundham bone merchant, Edward Packard) led to what has been dubbed "the Suffolk Gold Rush", and local fortunes were made (Packard established what was to become the fertiliser company Fisons, now part of AstraZeneca).

Songs of a Sourdough

"A month or so later he heard a gold rush yarn from a Dawson mining man about a fellow who cremated his pal."

Steamboats of the Stikine River

Captains William Moore and William Irving vyed for river traffic and fees during the first gold rush.

Stikine River

From there the river flows in a large northward arc turning to the west and southwest, past the gold rush and Tahltan community of Telegraph Creek.

Sun Loong

After Chinese came to Bendigo in the 1850s for the gold rush many settled and later in the 1870s the Chinese community became a part of the annual Bendigo Easter Festival.

Swanton, California

Ranched with dairy cattle since the California Gold Rush, Swanton was named after Fred Swanton, builder of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.

Terrell Braly

His great grandfather, J. Oliver Russell, along with his brothers William G. Russell, Levi Russell and James Russell, discovered gold in the Colorado Territory in 1858 and are credited with founding Denver and starting the Pikes Peak Gold Rush.

Walla Walla Valley AVA

When the gold rush ended, the economic focus of the state switched to Western Washington and the city of Seattle, lessening the influence of Walla Walla.

Waverley, Nova Scotia

The mascot of Gold Rush Days is a cartoon character resembling Yosemite Sam called Gold Rush Gus.

Whistler railway station

Two trains call at the station, the Rainforest to Gold Rush provides service from Whistler Station to Quesnel railway station and Jasper railway station.

William F. Holcomb

The gold rush was on, and miners founded the short-lived boom town of Belleville there.