List of people associated with the California Gold Rush
- List of people associated with the California Gold Rush
This is a selected list of people associated with the California Gold Rush. People listed here should be known to have been in Northern California during the period from 1848 to 1855.
*James "Grizzly" Adams
*Charles H. Bennett, present at the first discovery of gold.
*Henry Bigler
*Samuel Brannan
*Frederick Catherwood
*Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
*Charles Crocker
*Charles S. Fairfax
*Thomas Fallon
*John C. Frémont
*John White Geary
*Domingo Ghirardelli
*Daniel Govan
*Ulysses Grant
*O. C. Hackett
*John Wesley Hillman
*Sherman Otis Houghton
*William B. Ide
*Frank James
*James Lick
*James Marshall
*Richard Barnes Mason
*John Templeton McCarty
*James McClatchy
*Ross McCloud
*Benjamin McCulloch
*George McKnight
*Joaquin Miller
*Joaquin Murietta
*Isaac Murphy
*Joshua Norton, a.k.a. His Imperial Majesty Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico
*Lester Allan Pelton Inventor of the "Pelton Runner" - Considered to be the "Father of Hydroelectric Power"
*Benjamin B. Redding
*Charles E Sexey
*William Tecumseh Sherman
*Claus Spreckels
*Stephen Staats, nearby at the first discovery of gold.
*Leland Stanford
*Elijah Steele
*Levi Strauss
*John Sutter
*Mark Twain
*Maríano Guadalupe Vallejo
*William Waldo
*Edwin B. Winans
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