Travel And
Transportation
This part of our web page is dedicated to the question, "How did they get there?" People traveling to California usually used one of two methods to get there. On was to travel in a boat. For more details on travel by boats, click here. The second method is to go by land. People came from all over the USA to find gold. For more information on travel by land, click here.
Information for this web page has been provided by: Days of Gold, The California Gold Rush and the American Nation
Malcolm J. Rohrbough, University of California Press