The Georgia Gold Rush: Twenty-Niners, Cherokees, and Gold Fever Paperback - 1994
by David Williams
First line
As the story goes, on a crisp autumn day in the Georgia mountains young Benjamin Parks was returning home from a "lick log" on the western side of the Chestatee River where he and his friend, Lew Ralston, provided salt for their livestock.
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In the 1820s a series of gold strikes from Virginia to Alabama caused such excitement that thousands of miners from all parts of the United States poured into the region. This Southern gold rush, the first in U.S. history, reached Georgia with the discovery of the Dahlonega Gold Belt in 1829. Said Benjamin Parks, one of Georgia's first twenty-niners: "The news got abroad, and such excitement you never saw. It seemed within a few days as if the whole world must have heard of it, for men came from every state I had ever heard of. They came afoot, on horseback and in wagons, acting more like crazy men than anything else. All the way from where Dahlonega now stands, to Nuckollsville there were men panning out of the branches and making holes in the hillsides". As it happened, the Georgia gold fields were found to lie in and around Cherokee territory. In 1830 Georgia extended its authority over the area, and two years later the land was raffled off in a lottery. Although they resisted this land grab through the courts, the Cherokees were eventually driven west on the Trail of Tears into what is today northeastern Oklahoma. The gold rush era survived the Cherokees in Georgia by only a few years. The early 1840s saw a dramatic decline in the fortunes of the Southern gold region. When word of a new gold strike in California reached the miners, they wasted no time in following the banished Indians westward. In fact, many Georgia twenty-niners became some of the first California forty-niners. Georgia's gold rush is now almost two centuries past, but gold fever continues. Many residents still pan for gold, and every October during Gold Rush Days hundreds of latter-day prospectors reliving theexcitement of Georgia's great antebellum gold rush throng to the small mountain town of Dahlonega.
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- Title The Georgia Gold Rush: Twenty-Niners, Cherokees, and Gold Fever
- Author David Williams
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 5th Printing
- Pages 216
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of South Carolina Press, Columbia SC
- Date 1994-12-01
- Features Maps
- ISBN 9781570030529 / 1570030529
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 6.02 x 0.58 in (22.81 x 15.29 x 1.47 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Geographic Orientation: Georgia
- Library of Congress subjects Georgia - History - 1775-1865, Cherokee Indians - History - 19th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92028653
- Dewey Decimal Code 975.8
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