gold rush era
Frenzied mining period
A gold rush era is any period when discovery of gold deposits triggered mass migration and economic upheaval in a region.
The term applies broadly to nineteenth-century episodes in California, Australia, South Africa, and Alaska, among others: The town's architecture dates to the gold rush era.
Used attributively: gold rush era mining equipment, gold rush era photographs.
- Sutter's Mill1848 gold discovery location
- prospectingSearching for mineral wealth
- boomtownsFast-growing frontier settlements
- mining townSettlement serving ore extraction
- lawlessnessAbsence of governing rules
migration · frontier life · folklore · sourdough · Klondike · panning · stake a claim · claim · strike it rich · pay dirt · mining camps · forty-niners · nugget · ghost town · resource extraction · stagecoach · wagon train · entrepreneurship
- Goldfieldsgoldfields, prospecting, prospectors, mining tunnels, headframes
- Gold Rushprospectors, sluice, forty-niners, Sutter's Mill, pan
- Van Diemen's Landconvicts, penal colony, Van Diemen's Land, transportation, penal settlement
- South African Historyapartheid, Nelson Mandela, Mandela, Soweto, Sharpeville
gold rush eraeconomic depression
Sustained economic contraction
recession · subsistence economy · economic stagnation · plantation era