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for some millions of Americans, in a later and greater series of migrations westward, have made that discovery for themselves.
In
1948, 1949, and 1950, the State of California celebrates its three
centennial anniversaries of the Discovery, the Rush, and Statehood.
This Gold Rush Album, therefore, comes at precisely the right
time. For California's celebrations are peculiarly the nation's as
well. Only a century ago there were hardly any Californians at all; the
State's ten million people came to California, most of them, from the
rest of the country—came and stayed to make a great State out of what
they realized, for one reason or another, was a Golden Land. Here, in a
form as vivid as we could make it, is the text-and-picture story of how
the earliest of those millions got here. It is a narrative of
importance to all Americans.
Berkeley, California January 1, 1949
Joseph Henry Jackson
