Food

Go to TCI in Clever and find Chapter 7: The Gold Rush Changes California. Read Section 2 - Life in a Mining Camp and Section 3 - Opportunities for business. Chapter 2 about food, housing, and what kind of equipment miners used to find gold. Chapter 3 talks about how much food people could charge for food and cooked meals.

Food in Gold Rush California was hard to come by and very expensive. Read more here.

Click here to see exactly how much things like beef, eggs, and other basic supplies cost. (From California State Parks.)

Read a first-hand account from Luzena Stanley Wilson, a woman who lived in a mining town, of being offered $10 for her to cook one biscuit.