It?s hard to believe that a 175 years ago California was thought of as a faraway land. All it took was the findings of a few ounces of gold dust to start a revolution that would someday be considered one of the most vital event?s in the expansion of the United States. From the get go California was considered to be a place where things were made to happen. Even in the first glimmers of it?s existence it proved to be a place of innovation and wild imagination. It was a place that started out as being one man?s dream and ultimate failure of an agricultural empire, and ended up being the nation?s future.
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