gold rush

The California Gold Rush was one of the largest of all time, and led to a major population surge all over the southwestern US due to hopeful prospectors who wanted to make their fortune- and those who realized the best bet was to sell mining supplies to the suckers. The actual gold rush happened...

OTL, to say America has been the most powerful nation in the new world goes without saying, and giving DC a rival is a popular discussion on this thread. For me the idea is usually Mexico or Brazil, but i wonder, could Argentina become a latin american rival to the US? Here are the factors i...

A History of the Welsh in Alaska: A TLIAW Introduction The Welsh Alaskans have shaped our state's history over the last 150 years. 2018 marks the 150th year since Love Jones-Parry and Lewis Jones first landed at Porth Madryn, becoming the first Welshmen to set foot in Alaska. Y Wladfa was...

Self explanatory question. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war with Mexico at an opportunistic time. Any later and the United States might have pushed for greater concessions, which would effectively extended the war into 1848 and beyond. Would the settlers be deterred by going into a...

Alaska and its environs have had three significant gold rushes, the Klondike Gold Rush near Dawson City that happened from 1896 to 1899 in what is today the Yukon Territory about 100km from the Alaska border, the Nome Gold Rush from 1899 to 1909 on the western Alaskan coast, and the Fairbanks...