The California Gold Rush

American Trail! The California Gold Rush. I'll be in San Francisco and then I'll look around.

And when I see the gold lumps there, I'll pick them off the ground. I'll scrape the mountains, clean my boys, I'll drain the rivers dry. A pocket full of rocks bring home, so brothers don't you cry.

Oh California, that's the land for me. I'm going to Sacramento with a wasch to bomb my knees. Pretty good dad pretty good. Hi folks. This is Lenny Crosby. Guess you know my dad. I'm gonna move over a bit there Well, you son. I give the old man a little room, huh? Why you bet say dad. I kind of went along with that song

Well boy, that was number one. Did you know that number one on the hip parade back in 1849 and age to go right? Yeah long about the time California was ready to latch on to the US. Oh, they were the real rugged days They were and so they were but California's come a long long way since then yeah

All our big cities, farmlands, industries. More to it than that too, boy. I like to fool around with the idea that California is sort of a digest of American history. I guess it is, Dan.

What's happening? It's such a short time. Well, look, here by the time California was ready to spring along with the rest of the US, it had a lot of catch-it up to do. It's your cut up, though.

All right, then. That's what I mean. Now look, you know what I like to do here? I got a, uh, and about a young fellow your age who was around during the gold rush days.