The west gave new opportunities to settlers and Native Americans as well new land for living and animals for food and other valuable items. In 1858, committed miners traveled west, onto the Rockies, when they heard that gold had been discovered. Other groups, such as the “Fifty-niners” spread into Nevada, where they mined gold and silver which was worth almost 350 million dollars. Big ore-breaking machinery was brought over to crush the gold-bearing quartz. This procedure was very expensive and was often only pe

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