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The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883

Note 3 — Group III. GOLD IN CALIFORNIA, AND WHAT IT LED TO.

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Omaha is six hundred miles from St. Louis by the Missouri River, five hundred from Chicago, and 1,898 from San Francisco. It has a charming site. In 1866 its population had risen to eight thousand.

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