As the Eastern United States met the West in the months and years following the 1848 gold discovery at Sutter's Mill, California's shores and gold-filled hills became riddled with problems the eager prospectors might have thought they had left behind: racial tension, concern over rainfall, economic disparities between
In the months and years after the 1848 gold discovery at Sutter's Mill, as the Eastern United States reached the West, the shores and gold-filled hills of California were fraught with problems that the enthusiastic prospectors may have believed they had left behind: racial conflict, concern about rainfall, economic inequalities
