The Gold Rush lured hundreds of thousands of people to California and changed American history. It all started with a tiny gold flake.

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Effectively orphaned and penniless when his mother died, his Caribbean community pooled money to pay for his education in New York's King's College (now Columbia). He became Washington's right-hand ...