TEXAS GOLD FEVER
Story by Howdy-Nocona Fowler. Illustrations by Kevin Bishop.
I
n 1848, a man named James W.
Marshall picked a gold nugget out of
the South Fork of the American River
by Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California.
Before the 1849 Gold Rush was over,
12
300,000 people had migrated to
California from around the world in
search of gold. This ‘49 Gold Rush was
also directly responsible for the founding
of not just one but two historic
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American corporations, the Levi Strauss
Company and the John B. Stetson Hat
Company.
In August 9, 1904, a solitary prospec-
tor named Shorty Harris and his pack
burros discovered what became the Bull
Frog Gold Mine just outside of Beatty,
Nevada, 96 miles north of Las Vegas.
Shorty reached down and picked up a
rock to throw at a hard-to-catch burro,