In the Age of Gold, historian H.W. Brands writes about how the American psyche changed after the famous Gold Rush of California, “The old American Dream … was the dream of the Puritans, of Benjamin Franklin’s ‘Poor Richard’… of men and women content to accumulate their modest fortunes a little at a time, year by year by year. The new dream was the dream of instant wealth, won in a twinkling by audacity and good luck. [This] golden dream … became a prominent part of the American psyche only after Sutter’s Mill.”
In the middle of the 19th Century, there wasn’t just one gold rush, but a series that occurred throughout the world, from the US all the way to Australia. …
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