Tag: history of gold
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The History and Story of the California Gold Rush.
When you talk about the most important events in American history, you would be remiss if you didn’t mention the California Gold Rush. In terms of establishing the west coast as a place where people came for adventure and opportunity, the Gold Rush served as a major impetus. The Discovery Two years before the gold…
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The Gold Standard.
Not only have many people began buying quantities of gold but some of the talking heads on TV and the Internet have begun calling for a return to the gold standard that the United States abandoned in 1971. This is the kind of talk that people of the last two generations, at least, have not heard in…