A town born of the Gold Rush: Dr. Jeffrey Barlow, Who teaches at the Department of Asian History at Oregon's Lewis and Clarke College, has been researching the history of the Chinese in America for many years. He tells how the Gold Rush began in 1848 in California on America's West Coast, and later spread to Idaho.
據研究華人在美歷史多年，在奧勒岡路易士．克拉克學院教授亞洲歷史課程的鮑羅博士表示，淘金熱是在西元一八四八年從美國西岸的加州開始，而後傳到愛達荷州。