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The morning sun glints off the muddy waters of the American River as a lone figure crouches beside the stream, pan in hand. Around him, hundreds of other men work the same stretch of gravel, their backs bent, their hopes high. But this man isn't looking for gold in the water... he's watching the miners themselves. In his mind, he's already calculating. Not ounces of gold dust, but something far more valuable. The endless stream of money flowing from their pockets.

His name is Samuel Brannan, and while these men dream of striking it rich, he's about to become California's first millionaire. Not by finding gold... but by selling shovels to the dreamers.

But how did men like Brannan turn the Gold Rush into personal fortunes while the miners themselves went broke? How did a handful of entrepreneurs build business empires while 300,000 gold seekers barely broke even? How did the real winners of 1849 make their money not from the ground... but from the men who dug it?

This isn't the story you learned in school. This is the truth about who really got rich when gold fever swept America. The story of the men who understood that the real gold wasn't in the rivers... it was in the pockets of the miners.

My name is Sam, and this is Wild America.

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CHAPTERS
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:17 - The Awakening
00:07:28 - The System
00:13:08 - The Service Economy
00:15:41 - The Hydraulic Revolution
00:17:40 - The Network Effect
00:19:27 - The Legacy Builders
00:21:15 - The Final Accounting

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