To: Conspiracy Guy
You have all missed the boat, it was GOLD that caused the westward migration. GOLD on federal land that no one was doing anything with. Look at the population figures for California 1840 less than 20,000 people in all of California. 1950 over 100,000 and all because of GOLD. Then when the placer Gold was worked out they discovered the Comstock in 1859, and the rest is history...GOLD was the big mover...
37 posted on
02/28/2008 4:07:17 PM PST by
BooBoo1000
(Some times I wake up grumpy, other times I let her sleep/)
To: BooBoo1000
My family hates gold. We prefer dirt. My family owns a lot of dirt and dirt is gold.
42 posted on
02/28/2008 4:11:23 PM PST by
Conspiracy Guy
(I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
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