The Georgia Gold Rush
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The Georgia Gold Rush

Twenty-Niners, Cherokees, and Gold Fever

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Georgia Gold Rush

Twenty-Niners, Cherokees, and Gold Fever

About this book

The definitive story of Georgia's role in the first U.S. gold rush

In the 1820s a series of gold strikes from Virginia to Alabama caused such excitement that thousands of miners 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. The Georgia gold fields, however, lay in and around Cherokee territory. In 1830 the State of 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 along 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 the gold fever continues. Many residents still pan for gold, and every October during Gold Rush Days hundreds of latter-day prospectors relive the excitement of Georgia's great antebellum gold rush as they throng to the small mountain town of Dahlonega.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Georgia Gold Rush
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Illustrations
  8. Preface
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter One "No Talke, No Hope, Nor Worke, But Dig Gold": The Origins of Southern Gold Fever
  11. Chapter Two "Acting Like Crazy Men": Gold Fever and the Great Intrusion
  12. Chapter Three "Get a Little Further": The Cherokee Nation Abandoned
  13. Chapter Four "Civilized Life" Comes to the Gold Region
  14. Chapter Five "It's Just Like Gambling—All Luck": Mining in the Gold Rush Days
  15. Chapter Six "Gambling Houses, Dancing Houses, & Drinking Saloons": Life in the Georgia Gold Region
  16. Chapter Seven "Prosper the Americans and Cherokees": The Climactic Year of 1838
  17. Epilogue: "Gold Fever ... Ain't No Cure For It"
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index