“Instant wealth was here for the taking. All across America, young men made the decision to go to California. Every city, every hamlet would send its brightest, its strongest, to California--and eagerly await their triumphant return home. They came from Europe, Asia, and South America in search of instant riches. It was one of the greatest adventures the world had ever seen.” said Douglas E. Kyle ,a Historian from Merritt University, when asked about the early west. It was here, in the golden state, that the American dream was re-defined. The simple and everyday normal life wouldn't be enough. The everyday normality would be soon replaced with the new American dream, a dream to get rich; to make a fortune; and most importantly, to
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