The Great Swarming:Overland Trails and the Gold

Rush

Overland Migration

• To Pacific Coast, 1840-48: 14,247

• To Utah, 1840-48: 4,600

Total, 1840-48: 18,847

• To Pacific Coast, 1849-60: 239,150

• To Utah, 1849-60: 38,262

Total, 1849-60: 277,412

• Grand Total, 1840-60: 296,259

State Populations, 1840

• Virginia: 1,025,000

• Arkansas: 98,000

• Michigan: 212,000

• Florida: 54,000

• New Hampshire: 284,500

Overland Trails

“My Darling Clementine”

In a cavern, in a canyon, Excavating for a mine

Dwelt a miner forty niner, And his daughter Clementine.

Refrain: Oh my darling, oh my darling, Oh my darling, Clementine!

You were lost and gone forever Dreadful sorry, Clementine.

Martini/Martinez

Chop Suey

Pants as Ethnic Blending

Serge de Nimes

Genoese sailors

Serge de Nimes=denim

Genes (Fr. for Genoese)=genes=jeans

Blue Jeans

California Indian Population(From Sherburne Cook)

• 1770: 310,000

• 1848: 150,000

• 1900: 16,000

Ishi