“Ranch and Mission Days in Alta California,” by Guadalupe Vallejo 1846 – First Election in Yerba Buena 1846 – Capt. Montgomery Ends Indian Slavery 1846 – Gen. Fremont and the Bear Flag Revolt 1846 – The California Bear Flag 1846-1848 – Mexican War and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo “Life in California Before the Discovery of Gold,” by John Bidwell Yerba Buena – Before the Gold Rush 1846 – Lithograph of Yerba Buena 1846 – The Brooklyn Arrives at Yerba Buena San Francisco Gold Rush Chronology 1846 – 1849 1847 – William T. Sherman and California Before the Gold Rush 1847 – News of the Donner Party Reaches San Francisco 1847 – Order Changing the Name of Yerba Buena 1848 – “Discovery of Gold in California,” by John A. Sutter1848 – “Capt. Sutter describes the Gold Discovery,” by John A. Sutter 1848 – William T. Sherman and the Gold Rush 1848 – Military Governor Mason’s Report on the Discovery of Gold 1848 – Thomas Larkin Writes of the Gold Discovery 1848 – “A Rush to the Gold Washings,” from the California Star 1849 – Street Map of San Francisco 1849 – First of Six Great Fires 1849 – Notice: Important Meeting to Form a Fire Department 1849 – The Gold Rush and Anti-Chinese Race Hatred 1849 – From the Diary of Alvin Coffey, African American '49er History of San Francisco Gold Rush-era Street Names, by Henry C. Carlisle 1849 – San Francisco Gold Rush Banking 1849 – San Francisco’s First Brick Building 1849 – Miner’s Ten Commandments 1849 – Commandments from a Miner’s Wife 1849 – Gold Hunter’s Farewell to his Wife 1849 – California Constitution
