Comments: For the economic impact of mountain men, talk more about what mountain men did for a living. (what did they hunt and why, and what did they do with them?)
Impact of the Gold Rush in California in 1848, John Sutter discovered Gold at Sutter's mill. Economicly the majority of the miners made between fifty and a hundred dollars a month. Back then food was scarce but that didn't venders from charging so much at an isolated mining camp. It cost so much because miners had no where else to go. Tons of people swarmed into Calfornia in search of gold like Slaves, Cherokees, Chinese and many other immigrants. As time went on getting rich became very hard because the population kept getting bigger and bigger. the only way you could have been rich was by being there very early.
Mountain men, the resources they sought The mountain men traveled and hunted for anything that lived for food.There wasn't much food or fur, so rendezvouses would sell their products in exchange for animal fur. Fur was in high demand because in Europe it was very popular.
Impact of the Gold Rush in California in 1848, John Sutter discovered Gold at Sutter's mill. Economicly the majority of the miners made between fifty and a hundred dollars a month. Back then food was scarce but that didn't venders from charging so much at an isolated mining camp. It cost so much because miners had no where else to go. Tons of people swarmed into Calfornia in search of gold like Slaves, Cherokees, Chinese and many other immigrants. As time went on getting rich became very hard because the population kept getting bigger and bigger. the only way you could have been rich was by being there very early.
The mountain men traveled and hunted for anything that lived for food.There wasn't much food or fur, so rendezvouses would sell their products in exchange for animal fur. Fur was in high demand because in Europe it was very popular.