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The Real California Gold
Published: July 17, 2008 07:27
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Excerpt: All California schoolchildren are required to take a year of California state history. The curriculum always includes, as it should, an examination of the turbulent 1850s, when 250,000 Americans converged on Northern California’s rivers and valleys in search of gold. The children learn that three billion dollars of the precious mineral were extracted and that many of those who mined it became rich. We doubt that any California schoolchild ever learns that in the single year of 1950, California’s oil wells produced more in…
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