| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Gold Rush! California's Untold Stories <http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/>. Created and maintained by the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, Ca. Reviewed July 2001.

This most valuable Web site is an online version of four exhibitions created at the Oakland Museum in 1998 to mark the sesquicentenary of the California gold rushes—"Gold Fever!," "Art of the Gold Rush," "Silver and Gold," and Harry Fonseca's "The Discovery of Gold in California." 1

The introduction, "Stories of the Lure and Legacy," is a multimedia presentation—voices and changing still images—which explores the themes of "environment," "peoples," and "women." Both critical and celebratory voices are heard. The environmental damage of the gold rush is said to be a precedent for later "gross manipulation and exploitation of natural resources"—"we have not escaped the forty-niner mentality." The "Peoples of California" section notes the "prejudice and discrimination" several groups faced in gold rush times and the fact that the gold rush was a "disaster" for the California Indians, but it ends by affirming the rich diversity of contemporary California. Women, we are told, faced hardships on the journey out and in gold rush California, but they found they could do things they had never done before. California remains a land of opportunity and abundance, a place where people can reinvent themselves. . . .

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