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Word of the Gold Rush spread slowly at first.
The earliest gold-seekers were people who lived near California or people who heard the news from ships on the fastest sailing routes from California.
The first large group of Americans to arrive were several thousand Oregonians who came down the Siskiyou Trail.
Next came people from the Sandwich Islands, and several thousand Latin Americans, including people from Mexico, from Peru and from as far away as Chile, both by ship and overland.
By the end of 1848, some 6, 000 Argonauts | archivedate = 2006-10-10
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