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“…rich veins of silver and gold were discovered in the north”
In these years veins of silver and gold were found in Chile by Juan Godoy, this event started the Chilean gold Rush -
“That was the year of the floods, which were immortalized in schoolchildren’s textbooks and in their grandparents memories… a series of minor temblors, which came like gods wrath, finished destroying everything”. The narrator said this phrase, and he’s talking about the year of the floods in Chile. -
“…SF wasn’t much of a town”
In those years plenty of people were going in San Francisco in order to improve their life. -
During February of 1849 “Chilean and Peruvian women on their way to California..” for the California gold rush. -
“By the time there were more than 100,000 argonauts…” they arrived in California to make their fortune. -
“In May of 1853 Eliza read in the newspaper that Joaquin Muriel’s and his follower, Three-Finger Jack, had attacked a camp of six peaceful Chinese, held them by their queues, and slit their throats…” (466)
By 1853, in San Francisco there were 12 daily newspaper of which 8 were morning, 3 evening and one German. -
“Six column headline: Joaquin Murrieta had been killed”(481]
According to the legend-first compiled in Ridge’s book- Joaquin Murrieta was just a teenager when he left Mexico for California with dreams of cashing in on the gold rush -
In 1839 there was a war in China, known as the “Opium war” between the Chinese and British people, mainly because foreign traders (primarily British) had been illegally exporting opium mainly from India to China since the 18th century.