The gold fields were in northern CA about 100 miles inland from San Fransisco above Sacramento. Sonora was one of the main mining towns ( it is still there and very alive) and 6 miles from Sonora is Columbia. Columbia today is a state park and a preserved mining town showing what life was life in the 1850's in CA. The whole area is scattered with gold rush towns. Not too far from Columbia is Murphy's which, for a time, was the home to Mark Twain and down the road is Angles Camp. It is Angles Camp that Twain used in his story about the jumping frog. Today they have a jumping frog contest. The entire area is very interesting and fun to visit.
in Virgina
Most of the women who journeyed to the goldfields were treated very poorly by the gold miners. Many women dressed up as men to keep from being recognized.
Most of the miners were simply Australian. A great number of Chinese also came to the goldfields.
Yes. Christmas was certainly celebrated on the Victorian goldfields.
what did the police wear on the goldfields
Ned Kelly was bushranging several decades after the onset of the goldrush, but he certainly held up coaches carrying gold and money to and from the goldfields during the 1870s.
the most popular job in the goldfields was prostitution
gold
Most people did not find a lot of riches in the gold fields. Mining companies had a better chance of getting rich in the goldfields.
Those who were most targetted were passengers and drivers of the carriages which carried gold from the goldfields.
Most of the women who journeyed to the goldfields were treated very poorly by the gold miners. Many women dressed up as men to keep from being recognized.
Gold
i think that men were on the goldfields
they used it to buy stuff
they mined for gold but women were not allowed to
Yes men only did dig for gold in the goldfields because the women were so busy with their jobs and children.
thy were gold feaver
They came to find gold or sell products.