Mabhuku api aripo kuti unzwisise California pamberi pokutsvaka ndarama kwa 1849?
Chishandiso chikuru nokuda kwepre-Gold Rush California ibhuku rinonzi "Two Years Before the Mast" rakanyorwa naRichard Henry Dana uyo akasiya chikoro cheHarvard Law School ndokusainira rwendo rwechikepe chevatengesi kubva kuBoston muna 1834. Bhuku racho rinorondedzera rwendo rwokupoterera Cape Horn ine ngozi pasi pokutungamirira kwomutungamiriri ane utsinye uye anodzvinyirira uyo anoratidza kuzvidemba kuduku kana kuti kurangarira nokuda kwavashandi vake sezvo ngarava inorohwa pasi pemhenderekedzo nekubatana kweAtlantic nePacific oceans. Kuziva kwaAhabhi kwaMelville's Moby Dick hakugoni kubatsira asi kuzivisa mufananidzo wako wepfungwa womukuru mukuru uyu.  Ngarava yacho inoenda kumhenderekedzo yegungwa, ichipfuura nyika dzichangobva kuzvimiririra dzeSouth neCentral America, kuenda kuchamhembe kweMexico, nzvimbo inonzi Alta California. Ichipfuura nomumhenderekedzo yegungwa, ngarava yacho inotengeserana nevaSpanish uye vanhu vomunyika yacho mumisha miduku nemamishinari ainzi San Diego, San Pedro, San Juan, Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula, Santa Barbara, Monterey uye kuchamhembe kuSan Francisco Bay.  Rondedzero yaDana yakadzama yezviteshi zvengarava zvechisikigo nenzvimbo duku dzokugara namamishinari zvinorondedzerwa zvikuru uye zvinopesana zvikuru neCalifornia yatinoona nhasi. Mumwe anosiiwa nomurangariro wakasiana wokuva kure kweCalifornia kuavo vanofamba vachibva kumhenderekedzo yokumabvazuva yeNorth America kana kuti Europe.  Vashandi vacho vaitengeserana matehwe uye mafuta, zvisingadaviriki kune avo vanoverenga kubva panguva dzacho, avo vanofunga nezverwendo rwacho uye nezvokare zvomutoro wacho. Zvinhu zvokutengeserana zvinoratidzika kuva zvekare zvikuru apo kunorangarirwa chinjo iyo nharaunda yose yaizopinda muna 1848 paSutter's Mill.