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Gold Rush: Three Years in California Neil L. Rudenstine and activists"One of the classic first person accounts of the California Gold Rush period." In 1848, two years before California became a state, and at a time when the population of the area was sparse, James W. Marshall discovered gold while constructing a saw mill along the American River in Coloma, northeast of present day Sacramento. Over the following months, word spread across America and overseas and gold seekers soon began to arrive in Northern California