A selector was a person who selected a piece of land which they would then apply for to the government. The land was usually rich and well suited to crops and agriculture, rather than larger properties which would be used for running stock.
Often, selectors would take over land already established by squatters, and because the squatters had not paid for their land, they had no recourse. They had to give it up to the selector.
Selectors were not limited to the time of the goldrushes, which began in 1851. Selectors were around from the 1860s through to the 1880s.
At the time gold was found in Australia, there was a major gold rush going on in California.
The Gold Rush ended on 1855 by which time alluvial gold areas were depleted and gold had to be extracted from rock, which required mechanical equipment not available to diggers.
The Gold Rush caused the population to increase enormously in a small span of time.
The Californian gold rush!
It is about the Gold Rush time period
Big Time Rush - 2009 Big Time Gold 3-9 was released on: USA: 20 October 2012
the klondike gold rush is the main name and they found gold 1896 but the actual rush began 1897
California gold rush
cariboo gold rush in b.c.,canada - 1857 but the actual gold rush didn't start until 1861
Gold was discovered in California in 1849The people who looked for gold where called the fourty-niners which stands for (1849)And in the period of time when gold was in California there was so much gold that they called it the gold rush and the gold rush brought more than 100,000 people to California and the rest of the United States
Everybody rushed to the west at this time in hopes of finding gold during the Gold Rush. The cities most people flocked to were Denver, Sacramento and San Francisco.
By the gold rush!