Springfield High School - Capitoline Yearbook (Springfield, IL)

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e orty- iners Just one hundred years ago the greatest mass immigration in the history of our young country began. A year before, in I848, gold had been discovered at Sutter's Mill in California. Sutter, fearing the vast movement which eventually overwhelmed him and his California home, tried to keep the discovery a secret. But word leaked out and within a year had reached the populous east. Then the flood began. Some took passage on ships passing through the Gulf of Mexico to Panama, they treked across the Isthmus and then embarked on steamers plying northward to California. Some took the long journey around Cape Horn. Still others piled into wagons and headed them into the rolling west. From all walks of life they came. 'Rich men and poor men, wise men and fools, some alone and some with families, left jobs and adequate incomes to take their chances on the valuable dust. From north and south they came, old and young, good men and bad, bringing with them all the lawlessness and violence that such a movement must have. But the Argonauts of '49 served their purpose. Meaning to mine their ore and take it back home, many failed in their search and stayed to settle one of Americals last frontiers. Inasmuch as lllinois, located on the Mississippi River, was a jumping-off place for the overland drive, the l949 Capitoline staff feels that the Gold Rush is an appropriate theme for this, the centennial anniversary of the Forty-Niners. iv'

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