California Gold Rush
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Sep 11, 2026
Robin HutsonHOST
I know.
Robin HutsonHOST
I think we have a family story where there were some, my grandfather had distant cousins who were older than he was who left the family farm in Pennsylvania and, like, went to go to participate in the California Gold Rush and came back a couple years later.
Robin HutsonHOST
Okay, bye-bye.
Lynn LyonsHOST
Yeah.
Christian O'ConnellHOST
"Please ring in the bins.
Christian O'ConnellHOST
Did you know that 49 was named after the California Gold Rush of 1849?"
PatsyPANELIST
I did not.
Christian O'ConnellHOST
I did not know that.
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Mark EllisonHOST
Hi, I'm Mark Ellison, and today's theme is California Statehood Anniversary, the Golden State, Gold Rush history, and famous California facts.
Mark EllisonHOST
Question one, California marks its admission day each year.
Mark EllisonHOST
On what date in 1850 did it officially enter the Union as the 31st state? Question two, before statehood, delegates gathered to draft California's first constitution.
Mark EllisonHOST
What building hosted the 1849 Constitutional Convention? Question three, a glittering discovery set off the Gold Rush.
Mark EllisonHOST
At what site and on which river did James W. Marshall find gold in 1848? Question four, California's grizzly bear flag traces to a brief 1846 uprising.
Mark EllisonHOST
In which town was the original bear flag first raised? Question five, within a short stretch of the Eastern Sierra and Death Valley, California holds both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous US.
Mark EllisonHOST
On what date did California become the 31st US state? Answer, September 9th, 1850.
Flash SheltonGUEST
I mean, it's been like that, like-
Jamie KennedyHOST
So the original squatting when California Gold Rush, let's say, happened, what was the actual thing? What was the term of squatting and what was it?
Flash SheltonGUEST
It was called s- it was squatting.
Jamie KennedyHOST
Okay.
Charlie TaylorHOST
He cannibalised parts of the structures to create his new settlement in Sacramento.
Charlie TaylorHOST
Seven years after the Russians sailed back to Alaska, a chance discovery on Suter's property ignited the California Gold Rush.
Charlie TaylorHOST
Today, reminders of California's Tsarist past are still scattered across the Golden State as you drive north from San Francisco.
Charlie TaylorHOST
One of the city's most famous neighbourhoods, Russian Hill, gets its name from the graves of Russian American company sailors discovered there during the Gold Rush.
Josh MeyersHOST
For more information on visiting Alcatraz, you can visit the National Park Service website at nps.gov slash ALCA.
Josh MeyersHOST
If you have visiting a haunted California gold rush ghost town on your bucket list, then this next segment is for you.
Josh MeyersHOST
Whether you're a history buff, a legend tripper, or a ghost hunter, you're gonna wanna check out Bodie State Historic Park.
Josh MeyersHOST
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, it's the world's largest gold mining ghost town.
Bailey SarianHOST
Now, Richie was born in 1840 in Rushford, New York.
Bailey SarianHOST
He was the oldest of three siblings, and his father would leave when he was a kid to take part in the California Gold Rush, but he ended up getting robbed and murdered while searching for gold.
Bailey SarianHOST
LOL.
Bailey SarianHOST
That left Richard to support his mom and two younger brothers, which is a lot of pressure for a young man, you know? To all of a sudden becoming the man of the household.
PeteHOST
Yeah.
PeteHOST
So he's growing up during the Industrial Revolution and the California Gold Rush.
PeteHOST
And what you're seeing there is the world being really rapidly transformed with massive technological progress.
PeteHOST
And obviously that would be the case in the UK as well.
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PeteHOST
No.
PeteHOST
A guy called Stephen Foster, first pop songwriting star.
PeteHOST
He wrote Oh Susanna, which apparently the anthem of the California Gold Rush.
PeteHOST
And Camptown Races, you must know that one.
Alexis MadrigalHOST
But it's also that it's just gold.
Alexis MadrigalHOST
Add it all up and we've now got hobbyists and full-time prospectors headed up to the foothills where the California gold rush began.
Alexis MadrigalHOST
Wilson explores all these angles in her latest piece, How Americans Caught Gold Fever Again.
Alexis MadrigalHOST
And she joins us this morning.
Alexis MadrigalHOST
Now it's way more, I think around $4,500 an ounce.
Alexis MadrigalHOST
But it's also the cultural stuff.
Jennifer WilsonGUEST
Yeah, I mean, I think that there's just a longing for what the California gold rush represents in the American psyche.
Jennifer WilsonGUEST
It was this time when, you know, anyone, or so we think, anyone could go out to California and become rich.
Bailey SarianHOST
Well, word spread like a damn wildfire, and there was gold all over California, just ripe for the pickin'.
Bailey SarianHOST
Now this ignited what became known as the California Gold Rush of 1849.
Bailey SarianHOST
And people showed up in Southern California with axes in their hands and dollar signs in their eyes.
Bailey SarianHOST
I mean, they want some of that gold.
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