after independence broken down into devil s gate and it is just huge morbidly and in 20,000 people camped out there and all of those. i thought we needed to be prepared for this. as we question their bridge i wiggled on the wagon seat and it seat and adjusted my cowboy hat. it was time to go mormon. okay now i said you ve got to push her more men on here. you understand? i can do more men, no problem. i can do more. don t forget please send thank you and yes ma am, no, sir. and nick, for the rest of the morning i have brought their repair and your brother nicholas. older men are usually called elder. it is great. you don t even have to remember the guy s name. just call him elder. what about the women make asked? sister i said. .net. you just watch. i m going to be the last mormon you ever saw. [laughter] so i went into the sun ranch. mix out with the meals initiates talking to a mormon alter greater and i went through the museum
first with the aztecs and then of the incas, is of an unquenchable desire for precious gold and metals. also silver. when the first english settlers came to jamestown, they hoped to find the same kind of supplies of gold found by the spaniards. there was a bitter disappointment in not finding gold in what is now virginia. they brought with them jewelers and goldsmiths. america s first gold rush took place to where we are now in georgia in 1829. this was the georgia goldrush in north georgia. 100 miles north to the town of don monica, you can see the old lumpkin county courthouse has been converted into a gold-mining museum. it is about 100 miles up the road. what happened was, first gold was discovered, then people started pouring into the area in huge numbers because of the intoxicating possibility that gold would make them wealthy quickly. until then, this had been an area beyond the line of settlement. suddenly the white settlement catches up quickly. here is the governo
i am going to talk mainly about california and the years following 1948. you think all the way doctors conquistadors. they were fascinated by the quest for gold. the history of their conquest, first with the aztecs and then of the incas, is of an unquenchable desires for purchase for precious gold and metals. when the first english settlers came to jamestown, they hoped to find the same kind of supplies of gold found by the spaniards. there was a bitter disappointment in not finding gold in what is now virginia. america s first gold rush took place to where we are now in georgia in 1829. this was the georgia goldrush in north georgia. 100 miles north to the town of don monica, you can see the old lumpkin county courthouse has been converted into a gold-mining museum. discovered,d was then people started pouring into the area in huge numbers because of the intoxicating possibility that gold would make them wealthy quickly. until then, this had been an area behind the settlem
in the mid 1800s. he describes how people got there, the physical geography, and the evolving technology used to mine gold. his class is about 50 minutes. prof. allitt: good morning everybody. i am going to talk mainly about california and the years following 1948. gold plate a very important role in american history. you think back to the conquistadors, they were fascinated by the quest for gold or it gold. the history of their conquest, first with the aztecs and then of the incas, is of an unquenchable desire for precious gold and metals. when the first english settlers came to jamestown, they hoped to find the same kind of supplies of gold found by the spaniards. there was a bitter disappointment in not finding gold in what is now virginia. they brought with them jewelers and goldsmiths. america s first gold rush took place to where we are now in georgia in 1829. this was the georgia goldrush in north georgia. 100 miles north to the town of don monica, you can see the
they were treating the land and i learned that at this time, and it was 25 years ago, that covered may be half a million acres or more and i thought would be interesting to do a book that tracks how a ranch the size got put together over time and what that said about the west. and then eventually turn into this book and that included what a lot of latter day saints were talking about in pioneer times. .. in this is a longer chapter in my book. this is a more condensed version of what happened and it concentrates on the newspaper coverage of the event so after i wrote the book i got to read more about how these newspapers did it and it struck me the newspapers got some of the newspapers got it so magnificent wrong that it led to a misunderstanding of these events that was not cleared up until 100 years after words. that is what this is about. does that sound interesting? what do you think? all right. saturday, july 20th, 1889, 11 months before wyoming became a state a woman an