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On a chilly morning in January, 1848, carpenter James Marshall picked up the small pieces of gold here that touched off one of the largest, most frenzied mass migrations in history. Within a year of Marshall’s discovery, six thousand gold seekers swarmed over the western slope of the Sierra Nevada. Thousands more who followed completely changed what had been a quiet, remote Mexican province.
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