Comments on: The perils of predicting the future… http://gregcrouch.com/2016/perils-of-predicting-the-future website of author Gregory Crouch Sat, 26 May 2018 16:12:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.9 By: Gregory http://gregcrouch.com/2016/perils-of-predicting-the-future#comment-113985 Mon, 28 Mar 2016 19:28:38 +0000 http://gregcrouch.com/?p=6088#comment-113985 In reply to Doug Miller.

True that a ton of Gold Rushers went back and forth between the Pacific Slope and “The States.” That has surprised me. But a lot of them stayed, too–the 1860 census recorded 308,000 people in the state.

]]> By: Doug Miller http://gregcrouch.com/2016/perils-of-predicting-the-future#comment-113984 Mon, 28 Mar 2016 19:12:14 +0000 http://gregcrouch.com/?p=6088#comment-113984 Greg:
To be fair to the poor guy, a whole lot of ’49’ers did end up going back from whence they came, after spending considerable time hoping to strike it rich scrabbling for gold – and many ended up working at low wages to help get someone else rich. California was, and is, mostly a desert, and it took having command of considerable resources to make it pay off in a big way.

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