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NEVADA CITY, CAL/FORNIA (1852)
INTRODUCTION
few story of the pioneers and miners who invaded the lands of
the zisenan Indians between 1845 and 1850 and created a political subdivision known today as Nevada County, California, is an exciting and fascinating part of the mosaic of California history. The politics
and culture of California for a long time took their color from events in
the gold camps; Nevada County in particular became an important locus
for men and women whose concerns and preoccupations eventually
helped frame the identity of the emerging State. Traces of the color persist to this day, despite veneers of convention that time has overlaid upon
the picturesque, dynamic, and often violent society of those early days.
The sand and quartz of Nevada County were among the lodestones
that drew the most sudden westward emigration in the nation’s history.
Set off by the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, the movement
became one of the most potent democratizing agencies Americans had
yet experienced. Virtually no stratum of society was unaffected by the
call to adventure, opportunity, and hope for undreamed-of wealth. In the
matrix of these considerations, and in that of the history of California
more particularly, no one has recorded the important roles played by
Nevada County pioneers. That they merit their own story is unquestionable; that they have been neglected and forgotten for a hundred years is,
to me, unfathomable.
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