How gold rushes helped make the modern world
- Written by Benjamin Wilson Mountford, David Myers Research Fellow in History, La Trobe University
JCF Johnson's, Euchre in the bush, circa 1867, depicts a card game in a hut on the Victorian goldfields in the 1860s.
Oil on canvas mounted on board, 42.0 x 60.2 cmCourtesy of the Art Gallery of Ballarat
This year is the 170th anniversary of one of the most significant events in world history: the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill in...