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| What was the basic food in a prospector's diet? |
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| Pork, beans, coffee, and flour |
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| What were prices like in mining towns? |
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| What did the miner's do for entertainment? |
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| Danced, drank, gambled, sports, and later professional entertainment |
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| What were living conditions like in a mining camp? |
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| Name two diseases miners contracted? |
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| Why did Hargraves name the site of his gold discovery "Ophir"? |
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| Named after a California mining camp |
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| Who discovered gold in Australia? |
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| How was the government of Australia different from California's? |
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| As an English colony, it already had a government |
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| What is "The Welcome Stranger"? |
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| A gold nugget that weighed 140 pounds |
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| When was most of the Alaskan gold found? |
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| The spring and summer of 1897 |
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| What hardships did the Alaskan gold rushers face? |
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| Extreme cold, disease, and starvation |
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| What special people were aboard the Portland and the Excelsior when they steamed in San Francisco Bay? |
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| Miners with gold from Alaska |
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| What is special about the Homestake Mine? |
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| One of the world's largest gold mines |
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| Where was gold discovered in South Dakota? |
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| Who own the Black Hills when gold was discovered there? |
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| Name places that gold was discovered: |
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| California, Alaska, Nevada, Colorado, Australia, South Dakota, Montana, and Idaho |
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