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Gold:
Game Marshall's discovery of gold in the tail race of Sutters Mill at Coloma, 24 January 1848, set in motion the greatest voluntary mass migration in recorded history.
Within a year, opportunists of every persuasion traveling y land and sea from every corner of the globe, swarmed to the placers of the Mother Lode.
This tidal wave of humanity, representing every cultural ethic of the time, swept across the region's bucolic provinces out into the vast Sierra wilderness.
The task of bringing a sense of moral, legal and ethical order to the former land of the Dons, still stands today as one of the major accomplishments of our country's legal system. |