The Great Swarming: Overland Trails and the Gold Rush

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The Great SwarmingOverland Trails and the Gold
Rush
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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

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State Populations, 1840

• Virginia 1,025,000
• Arkansas 98,000
• Michigan 212,000
• Florida 54,000
• New Hampshire 284,500

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Overland Trails
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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.
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Martini/Martinez
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Chop Suey
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Pants as Ethnic Blending

• Serge de Nimes
• Genoese sailors
• Serge de Nimesdenim
• Genes (Fr. for Genoese)genesjeans
• Blue Jeans

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California Indian Population(From Sherburne Cook)

• 1770 310,000
• 1848 150,000
• 1900 16,000

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Ishi
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