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How did the California gold rush transform the West in the American imagination?



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Before the gold rush, the west was wild and they were very few people around. The big cities in California were shires with few hundreds citizens.
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Before the gold rush the west was wild and there were very few people around. The big cities in California were shires with a few hundred citizens
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