California Gold Rush
“Sutter's Mill on the American River, 1849. Forty-niners crouch beside a wooden sluice swirling gravel and water. Foreground shows pans flashing with flecks of gold and shovels caked with mud; midground reveals tent-camps strung along the riverbank and miners arguing over a claim stake; the Sierra Nevada foothills glow gold-green in the afternoon light.”
