"The best way to get rich in a gold rush is not to dig for gold but to sell shovels."
"In the hopes of becoming rich, it lured prospectors from all over the United States and beyond."
"In a gold rush, the people that make the most money are the people that supply the picks and shovels."
"It's unbelievable to think that such a thing was found during this tune heads Gold Rush."
"Johannesburg, the most massive gold rush in history."
"The California Gold Rush... drastically altering the state's demographics."
"Imagine it's in the 1800s and you have all these people rushing out to come to California for the gold rush and this is what they see."
"Box number two gold 14 Carrot the biggest gold rush I have ever seen in my life filled with 14 Carrot she was wrong and I was right."
"It's like finding gold in a river, this is like panning for gold like in the Gold Rush days in California when you come across this."
"Gold! Gold! Gold on the American River!"
"Gold could drive men crazy, but mostly it was the inability to find gold that drove men crazy."
"Dawson City Paris of the north was nothing uh in 1897 it was a swamp uh rudimentary log cabins and wall tents uh were set up uh the first uh business in Dawson is rumored to be either a Saloon or a sawmill."
"The Klondike Gold Rush didn't last forever once Prospectors had gotten Rich from the plentiful Hills surrounding Dawson word arrived that even greater riches were to be found further west."
"It's very much like the gold rush... you have to change your paradigm and you have to take advantage the best you can of circumstances that are coming up."
"...modern day gold rushes tick the same boxes as their more famous California cousin: artisanal miners working in precarious conditions, Mercury pollution, and dire environmental consequences."
"To this day you can still find hidden gold in the hills of California."
"Parker's story is one filled with ambition, perseverance, and the unwavering chase of a dream deeply rooted in the quest for gold."
"When the people went west in the 1800s seeking gold, they found it in the dirt. Prison is the dirtiest place in the country."
"In my seven years of e-commerce I have never seen a gold rush like right now."
"But it's said to be haunted by the spirit of a woman who lost her life during the gold rush and visitors have often reported hearing the ghostly screams of a woman coming from the deep dark depths of the mind."
"California was basically saying, 'Oh by the way, all the gold is ours.'"
"The story of Telegraph Creek is a wonderful one. It starts with a gold find, yeah. It becomes an abandoned telegraph line, but it always seems to exist."
"The Klondike Gold Rush had begun."
"The promise of an instant fortune was enough to send droves of desperate adventurers scrambling north."
"It's boom time; it's the Wild West; it's our Klondike, you might say."
"The 1848 Sutter's Mill Marshall gold discovery on the American River led to the gold rush."
"But for all its magnificence, it was not scenery that brought settlers to Colorado but gold, wealth that is still being won from the rock."
"As soon as one person makes a year's worth of income in a month, it's a gold rush."
Many of the so-called "'49ers" who settled during the Gold Rush were in fact "'48ers;" revolutionaries who had fled the suppression of liberal and nationalist uprisings in Europe.
"The allure of striking gold in an unclaimed piece of land has captured the imagination of billions of people."
"Two small nuggets of gold become the catalyst for the largest migration in the history of our nation."
"People are still lured here year after year; they're trying to find a lost gold reef."
"...once home to 10,000 people, bodh boomed in the late 1880s after gold was found in the hills surrounding Mono Lake."
"The prospector had engineered an unparalleled Gold Rush, outsmarting scientists, analysts, and investors."
"During the California Gold Rush of 1848, hundreds of thousands of Americans living on the East Coast of the United States packed up their things in covered wagons and headed west for California to attempt to quite literally strike gold."
"There's gold, and it's haunting and haunting; it's luring me on as of old."
"A gold rush so substantial that Alabama's top industry becomes gold mining."
"The California Trail was the Overland immigrant route between the Missouri River and the gold fields of California following the discovery of gold in Coloma, California, in 1848."
"From the start of the California Gold Rush in 1849 to 1882, when the Exclusion Act stopped their immigration, a sizable number of Chinese people also immigrated to the United States."
"What's unique about this place is at one point it was a boom town over 20,000 people moved here in just one year looking for gold."
"After that period, you could leave a pan of gold sitting on the street and no one would touch it."
"The coin of exchange was the gold nugget."
"Rosland was the most famous gold town in British Columbia in the 1890s."
"There were nuggets on the Thompson around Dead Man's Bend, up to two ounces in weight, very coarse gold."
"The Chinese miner was early on the scene in British Columbia when the Fraser River rush really started."
"It was so spectacular that the first miners there... they had to actually measure the gold in butcher scales."
"The find triggered a human tsunami not seen since the days of the California Gold Rush."
"This gorgeous town owes its existence to the same thing as many others across Victoria: gold."
"Thousands rushed to the town hoping to strike it rich."
"The Alaskan Hotel and Bar, opened in 1913 during the gold rush, is the oldest still functioning hotel in Alaska."
"The gold ridge belt south of the Marshall discovery became known as the mother lode."
"From all corners of the earth men are heading for California and the greatest gold rush the world's ever known."
"They were on a mass stampede; they just had to get to the gold."
"It's so gripping throughout it, I think, in the many different stories of a gold prospecting town in New Zealand."
"That was the high year of the rush, that was when most of the people in the northwestern part of North America, in fact most of North America, heard about the Klondike."
"This is Gold Hill, this is the origin of the gold of the Klondike strike."
"The discovery couldn't be kept secret for long; down in Victoria, the gold rush would impact society more than any place on earth."
"I'm going to find me a gold mine by the likes of which no one's ever located before. It'll be so rich the whole world will be talking about it."
"In 1896, prospectors found gold near Dawson City in Yukon."
"Gold nuggets laying at the bottom of creek and riverbeds, waiting to make somebody's fortune."
"It was the discovery of gold and lumber which actually brought significant number of peoples into these mountains."
"The money in the gold rush was made by people selling the shovels."
"Prospectors who searched for the yellow metal during the great gold rushes of the 19th Century spoke of lost mines, lost worlds, and monsters long consigned to the dustbin of prehistory."
"We're out in the Gold Country of California, big gold rush area right here."
"The person that made the most money is the guy selling shovels."
"Helena became the state capital of Montana because of the discovery of gold."
"After gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, people flocked to California for the chance to strike it rich."
"Finding gold gave him the only happiness he knew."
"The song became nationally famous as the anthem of the men and women called 49ers."
"The shimmering heat, the dust, and the longing for gold brought out the worst and the best of the men who sought fortunes on the desert in the 19th century."
"Once the quiet discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill broke loose, the boom in people traversing the nation and the oceans to enter California made the population explode in a way no other place on earth had ever encountered."
"If you left Gold Rush era San Francisco for a month and returned, you would return to a city you could barely recognize."
"The California dream for so many Argonauts that sought California's riches begins to fade."
"The California Zephyr crosses the Sierra Nevada at Beckwourth Pass, route of the 49ers whose search for gold led to the development of California."
"It was called the gold rush, not the starvation rush."
"The world seemed to be awash with gold; in the 50 years following the discoveries in California, more gold was mined in the world than in the previous five thousand years."
"The stampeders saw themselves as competitors in a kind of grand race."
"Sitting at the foot of some of the richest ground ever discovered, Dawson City had more gold dust millionaires than anywhere on earth."
"The cry of gold in California triggered an extraordinary stampede of fortune seekers from all corners of the world."
"The gold rush of California would serve as a template for other rushes to riches in various parts of the world that would follow."
"Gold was discovered there, and the white settlers flooded in; that changed everything."
"The Boise Basin gold strike turned out to be one of the richest strikes in American history."
"Men had found gold in the Yukon, and these men wanted big strong dogs to work in the cold and snow of the North."
"There's gold on them there hills, boys!"
"The real problem was the money supply in the country at the time, and they really lucked out with the discovery of gold in the Yukon."
"This is what it's all about, it's a straight race to grab as many gold coins as you can."
"Thousands of people flocked here from all over the world for their share of the gold."
"The Gold Rush transformed California from a useless semi-desert into an important economic center."
"During the gold rush, the average person that was digging for gold wasn't making that much money, but the people that were making all the money were the people selling these shovels."
"The discovery of gold in 1848 and the ensuing rush to California left Tahoe remarkably unspoiled."
"There was gold in the hills, and by 1876, there was no way to stop the rush."
"The gold rush era, beginning in 1851, led to an enormous expansion in population."