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"Alaska is the land of the 19th century Argonauts; and the Golden Fleece invisible away among its snowcapped and glacier-clad mountains is not the attractive creation of mythological fame, but yellowish nuggets, which might be transformed in to the coin of the realm. The vast place into which these hardy troops of fortune penetrate is believe it or not replete with wonders than the fabled land into which Jason is thought to have led his group of adventurers. There is certainly this difference, however, between your frozen land of the North and the fabled land of mythology. There is certainly little or nothing conjectural about Alaska or its fantastic treasure. Jason led his group into an undiscovered country without the certain knowledge that the treasure he was seeking was there." (A.C. Harris, writer of Alaska and the Klondike Yellow metal Mines ) One of the most crucial and memorable occasions of the United Areas' westward force over the frontier came with the breakthrough of platinum, in the lands that became California, in January 1848. Located a large number of miles from the country's vitality centers around the East Shoreline at the time, the announcement emerged a month prior to the Mexican-American War finished. It brought an influx of an estimated 90,000 "Forty-Niners" to the region in 1849, hailing from other areas of America and even while a long way away as Asia. All informed, an estimated 300,000 people would come to California over the next couple of years, as men dangerously trekked a large number of miles in hopes of making a fortune. In a span of months, San Francisco's people exploded, which makes it main mining boomtowns to truly spring up in the Western world. This is a pattern that would repeat itself over the Western world anytime a nutrient breakthrough was made, from the Southwest and Tombstone to the Dakotas and Deadwood. Naturally, it was all made possible by the collective storage area of the initial California gold dash.