The mock forty-niner camp at the Midwinter Exposition
1894
The California Midwinter International Exposition, staged in Golden Gate Park, included a reconstructed gold rush mining camp as one of its attractions. It presented the 1849 rush as heritage to fairgoers barely forty-five years after the event.
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