It is 1848 and today is the day I am
setting out to go to the new state that was taken from Mexico. I have heard only few ventured to this remote
place in the beginning , but I have heard that many people from the united
states and even around the world have gone to this place. They all have
a reason though. I hear that there is gold in the new place and I want some.
Therefore, I am going to go and get some. I am going with a few others and
leaving my family here for safety reasons. I will be walking from here.
It shouldn't be farther than most of the places I have gone but it is
still very dangerous, that is why I am not taking my family.
Now that I am here , I have noticed that this environment looks dramatically different than where
I am from. I have noticed
that these gold mining companies have permanently altered this new
places landscape, choked its rivers with sediment, and repeatedly buried
thousands of acres of low-lying farms. I looks nothing like what I
am used to. I have also noticed
that the majority of prospectors and miners, as well as many of the entertainers,
merchants, packers and speculators who participated in each of the gold rushes,
are Caucasian. Since I just got here and I am starving I am going
to try to find something to eat. As I pass through the town, I
see that a lot of the prices have been raised fairly high. I am
guessing that it is because everyone is finding this "gold". I
figured that I should probably go and try to find some if these prices are
going to stay this high.
I have now been here for a very long time and I am starting to
get irritated. I cant seem to find much more gold and when I do it comes in
little bits. I am really getting sick of these prices for everything! Not
everyone can find gold and these people just don't care that not everybody
enough to pay for it. Ever since I
got here more and more people keep coming because of the fact that there
is gold. The boost in its population is outstanding! Since I have been here I noticed that there has been a decrease in
people wanting gold. Apparently, the new gold is wheat. People are
starting to want wheat more than gold. I've decided that I want to
go back to where I originally came from and possibly bring my family back here
sometime soon to start up a wheat farm.
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