The Gold Rush Created Get Rich Quick Schemes and ‘Move Fast and Break Things’

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On the morning of January 24, 1848, a carpenter named James Marshall climbed into a ditch beside a half-finished sawmill in the Sierra Nevada foothills, stooped down, and found gold. He crawled out clutching his hat to h...

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