The gold rush made
San Francisco, in Richard Henry Dana's words, "the sole emporium
of a new world, the awakened Pacific." Billions in precious metal
made a great city arise in barely a decade beside one of the greatest
natural harbors in the world. And with the completion of the transcontinental
railroad in 1869, San Francisco became California's port of entry
for travelers and traffic arriving from the east as well.
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