In January 24,1848 a carpenter named James Wilson Marshall found gold in the American river. The news about the discovery of gold went out to San Francisco's newspapers. The gold rush continued throughout the 1850. The people that mostly went to the gold rush are mostly men. During the California gold rush there was violence and people would have to pay their food with their gold that they found. In the California gold rush lots of people died they were killed in the mountains. The gold rush end in 1858. After the gold rush the people that.In the California gold rush people millions of people