Ten American gold rushes

In my novel Nearly Canaan, Joshua and Jaya settle into a place unlike anything they would have imagined. It’s desert, for one thing, where nearly everything has to be irrigated, for another. Quite simply, it’s a lot like Yakima, in the middle of Washington state. And yes, the state still has gold miners and prospectors.

Here are some significant gold rushes in U.S. history.

1. Cabarrus County, North Carolina, 1799
2. Sierra Nevada, California, 1848-55
3. Colville, Washington, 1855
4. Pikes Peak, Colorado, 1859
5. Clearwater, Idaho, 1860
6. Montana, 1862-69
7. Black Hills, South Dakota and Wyoming, 1874-78
8. Cripple Creek, Colorado, 1891
9. Mount Baker, Washington, 1897-1920s
10. Nome, Alaska, 1899-1909

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British Columbia could have a Tendrils list of its own. And my family had a mine of its own in Guilford County, North Carolina, in the first half of the 1800s.