San Francisco in the 1850s absorbed too many people in too short a period. The ‘49er Gold Rush changed California’s shape and position in the world overnight.
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How redwood logging remade Gold Rush-era San Francisco, but devastated the forest and those who lived there
Around 1850, men with axes began cutting down California’s redwoods, the first step in a process that turned the giant trees into houses, railroad ties, cigar boxes and other products. As James ...
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