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Step back into history and the vibrant era of the 1849 Gold Rush! A single Eureka! event changed history forever, early January of 1848. Sutter's Mill on the American River became California's first gold discovery site. Take a journey along circuitous Gold Country backroads and visit museum-quality mining towns and regions covering one-fifth of the Golden State's most scenic geography. Whether exploring the first gold strike on the American River South Fork or visiting State Highway 49's Golden Chain of mining towns, explore the 300-mile adventure to legendary gold mines, surrounding lakes, rivers, and streams. It's a path of history bringing the miners to the goldfields with their frantic lust for gold on a quest for the precious mineral generating the largest single mass migration ever recorded. It's a story of pioneers and historical spots that brings forward the history of California's growth after the 1849 Gold Rush period to the present day. The book highlights 14 Gold Country Tours, as travelers take an insider's view from a 'Golden State Triangle' starting in Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, or Yosemite National Park. During a 50-year career in the Sierra Nevada foothills and dozens of twists and turns over the rigorous curves into the steep river canyons of State Highway 49, the first impressions of Sutter's Mill encouraged California Gold Country Explorer and new touring book. Once covered with tent camps, ghost towns, and gold mines spread the Golden Chain includes recreati