Gold! (34 page)

Frenchman (free ride on steamship),
119
–
20

gambling aboard steamships,
116

Gatlin, Larry,
257

General Land Office,
300
–
301

Georgia, Sherman's march across,
230
–
32

Gill, Jane,
209

Gillespie, Archibald,
20

Globe
(steamship),
124
–
25

gold, discovery of.
See also
Black Hills gold

rush; California Gold Rush

in Alaska,
247
–
48

in California,
37
–
40
,
43
–
45
,
241

effect of,
248
–
49

Homestake mine,
241
,
243

Larkin's verification of,
74
–
77
,
79
–
86

Mormons and,
38
–
39
,
46
,
57
–
58

news gets out,
61
–
62
,
65
,
105
–
6
,
207

New York Herald
on,
100
–
101

placer gold,
74
,
78
,
86
,
154
–
55
,
241

the placer (gold region),
74
–
75
,
77
,
79
,
81
–
82
,
88
–
89

Polk's announcement about,
105
–
6
,
303
–
6

Sutter's reaction to,
43
–
49

Walnut Creek,
183
–
84

gold fever

Americans' get rich quick attitude,
224
–
25
,
240
,
247
,
248

from hope for family's future,
107
,
111

nondiscriminatory nature of,
78

gold miners

complaints of,
91
,
160
–
63

description of,
79
–
83
,
95
,
148
,
154
,
157

gold mining

difficulty of,
153
,
156
–
57
,
292

Larkin's description of,
79
–
84

quartz rock and,
91
,
241

techniques for finding gold,
153
–
54

gold mining camps.
See also entries beginning with
“gold”

Camp Salvado,
189
–
90

Camp Washington,
190
–
91

Deadwood, Black Hills,
240

decline of gold and,
227

description of,
199
,
205

Dry Diggings,
183
–
86

mortality rate in,
208

Rough and Ready,
210
–
14

Rough and Ready, CA,
210
–
14

short life of,
151
–
52

Sutter's Creek, CA,
91

vigilante justice in,
185
–
86

gold mining equipment

combines,
227
,
228

cost of,
80
,
81
,
101
,
151

cradles,
80
,
154
–
55

in dry areas,
183
–
86
,
190
–
91

fingers and knives,
40

panning for gold,
68
,
83
–
84
,
155
–
57
,
259

patented gold washers,
154

quartz rock gold,
241
–
42

shovels, pans, hoes, and picks,
68
,
88

trenches and flumes,
191

woven Indian baskets,
68

Gold Rush widows,
214

Gouch, Nancy,
188
–
89
,
248

Grant, Ulysses,
242

Great Republic of Rough and Ready,
212
–
13

Great Sioux Reservation, Dakota Territory,
234

Gulf of Mexico, storms from,
121
–
22

gunfight at the O.K. Corral,
247

Haggin, J. B.,
241

Hangtown, story of,
183
–
86

Hearst, William,
241

Herold, David,
232

Hickman, Robert S. “Beau,”
119

Hickock, Wild Bill,
240

High Sierra
(movie),
256

Hobson, A. D.,
197
–
99

Hobson, James Cornelius,
197
–
99

Homestake mine,
241
,
243

Honolulu, HI,
5

hotels and sleeping facilities

in San Francisco,
148

at Sutter's Fort,
109

Hudson Bay Co. Pacific Headquarters,
5

Humboldt Sink (Nevada),
198

immigrants.
See also
racism and class distinctions

“The California Emigrant's Song,
249
–
52

Chinese,
189
–
91

Irish,
120
,
149
–
50
,
158
–
59

Latin American,
191
–
94

post-gold rush,
224
–
25

Indians.
See
Native Americans

Industrial Revolution,
224
–
25

Irish immigrants,
120
,
149
–
50
,
158
–
59

Isthmus of Panama route to California,
97
–
98
,
291
–
92

James, Frank,
215
–
16
,
218

James, Jesse

Andersen, Bloody Bill, and,
219

auctioning of home after father's death,
215
–
16

birth of,
32

father of (
See
James, Robert)

Union solders and,
218
–
19
,
220

James, Robert

children of,
xxii
,
32
,
208
,
209
–
10
,
215
–
21

death of,
214

letters to Zerelda,
210

as preacher in Clay County, MO,
xxi
–
xxii
,
12
–
13
,
207
–
8

in Rough and Ready, CA,
210
–
14

James, Zerelda,
208
,
215
–
16

Jayhawkers,
217

Jenkins, Sam,
180
–
81

Joanna Analuffa
(Danish schooner),
144
–
45

Jones, Anson,
16
–
17

Journal of Commerce
(London),
109

Kansas,
4
–
5

Kirtland Mills, OH,
52
–
53

Lancaster, OH,
xxiii

Laramie, WY,
233
–
34

Larkin, Thomas

about,
71
–
72

on commerce and manpower,
74
–
77

gold seekers, description of,
79
–
83

panning for gold, description of,
83
–
84

Latin American immigrants,
191
–
94

Latin Americans and Californios, racism against,
191
–
94

law and order, gold rush and,
86

Leverett (McNeil's traveling companion),
134
–
35
,
140

Liberty Tribune
(newspaper),
207
–
8

Life on the Plains and among the diggings
(Delano),
169
–
71

Lincoln, Abraham, assassination of,
220
,
232

liquor houses,
158

Little Big Horn,
242

Logan (steamship captain),
115
,
120
,
122

Los Angeles, CA

Mexican American War in,
29
–
31

questioning prisoners in,
195
–
96

Love, Harry,
201
–
2

lye soap,
39

Maria Burt
(steamship),
123

Marshall, James

author's reminiscing about,
256
–
59

Butte Creek ranch,
13
–
14

cabin in Coloma,
226
–
27
,
258

death of,
248

discovery of gold,
37
–
40
,
43
–
45

Frémont and,
21
–
22

pension from CA state legislature,
235

sawmill, Marshall and Sutter's,
31
–
37
,
38
,
65
,
68
–
69
,
257
–
58

traveling west,
11
–
12

as vintner (1857–1860),
226
–
27

as wheelwright at Fort Sutter,
13
,
31
–
32

Martin, Daniel,
253
–
54

Mason, John,
192
–
93

Mason, Richard Barnes,
62

Matamoros, Mexico,
18

Mazatlán route to California,
97
,
99

McCall, “Broken Nose” Jack,
240

McLaury and Clanton gang,
246
–
47

McNeil, Samuel. See also
McNeil's Travels
about, III,
113
–
14

advice to miners,
291
–
92

birth of,
xxiii

cholera,
129
,
135

on death of companion,
135
–
36

encounter with Comanche Indians,
136
–
38

on finding gold,
153
–
54

on government and class differences,
118
–
19

Indian scare,
134
–
35

on Mexican senoritas,
131
–
32
,
133

on religion,
117

Strode's slandering of,
140
–
42

on Sutter,
243
–
45

Sycamore Tree Establishment, Sacramento City, CA,
157
–
67

traveling companions,
113
,
143
–
44
,
165

on volcanoes,
142

McNeil's Travels
(chronologically)

about,
112
–
14

steamship to New Orleans,
115
–
23

New Orleans, LA,
123

steamship to Panama (leaks),
123

steamship to Brazos, TX,
124
–
25

Reynosa, Mexico,
125
–
33

Rio Grande River crossing,
131

San Juan River,
133
,
135

Monterrey to Durango,
136
–
38

Mazatlán,
138
–
43

McNeil leaves his group,
142

San Francisco,
142
–
45

Sacramento,
149
–
50
,
157
–
67

Smith's Bar,
149
–
51
,
152
–
53

returning home,
167
–
68
,
249
–
50

Mexican-American War.
See also
Treaty of

Guadalupe-Hidalgo

the Bear Flag Revolt,
20

border dispute,
15
–
16
,
17

declaration of war,
18

end of,
66
–
67

Mexican militia,
29
,
30
–
31

Mexican surrender in California,
21

Mormon Battalion,
54
–
57
,
114

in Polk's State of the Union Address,
296
–
300

Polk's State of the Union Address on,
296
–
300

settlement negotiations,
41
–
43

Treaty of Cahuenga (1847),
261
–
65

U.S. attempts to negotiate,
17

Mexican militia,
29
,
30
–
31

Mexican senoritas,
131
–
32
,
133

military deserters,
85
,
93

miner courts,
159
,
171
,
183
,
184

mining gold.
See entries beginning with
“gold”

mining quartz,
91
,
241

mining silver,
228
,
245
–
46

Mississippi River,
122
–
23

Missouri Compromise (1850),
172

Missouri Mounted Volunteers,
32

Monroe, Andrew,
188
–
89
,
248