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Go to TCI in Clever and find Chapter 7: The Gold Rush Changes California. Read Section 2 - Life in a Mining Camp. This chapter talks about food, housing, and what kind of equipment miners used to find gold.
Click here to go to the Encyclopedia Britannica entry on the California Gold Rush. Click on the Table of Contents in the upper left-hand corner to read the "Life on the Goldfields" section to read more about miners' housing, property rights, and "claim jumping."
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An 1849 illustration of miners in a tent and miners in front of a log cabin
The mining town of Nevada City
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