All that Glitters: Trans-ing California's Gold Rush Migrations
@article{Sears2008AllTG, title={All that Glitters: Trans-ing California's Gold Rush Migrations}, author={Clare Sears}, journal={GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies}, year={2008}, volume={14}, pages={383 - 402} }
In early 1848, on the eve of the California gold rush, San Francisco was a small, coastal settlement with approximately eight hundred residents, including Californios, Native Americans, and Euro-American settlers. Within two years, the town’s population had boomed to thirty-five thousand; within ten years, it had surpassed fifty-five thousand, as the discovery of gold in the Sierra foothills brought thousands of migrants to the port of San Francisco.1 Over 95 percent of these migrants were…
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