YOUR ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE GOLD RUSH GOLD RUSH EMIGRANTS
When picturing a “forty-niner", one of the treasure seekers who travelled to California in search of gold and glory, your mind might conjure up a sun-burned white man with a tangled beard and a gold pan dangling from his hand. While almost 80 per cent of prospectors were white east coasters, thousands of newcomers to California also poured in from across the globe.