Matthew Flemington Stephenson gets credit for the iconic American phrase, “There’s gold in them thar hills.” Many mistakenly believe that the phrase was in reference to the gold-saturated hills of California during the 1849 gold rush that sprung to life with the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848. The truth is just the
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