Far West

…However, just before that, in late January, gold mines were discovered in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, and soon after it became part of the United States, it became known throughout the United States. In 1949, people known as the "Forty-Niners" flooded into California from the East in hopes of getting rich quick, and in 1950, California's population exceeded the required number, and it was promoted to statehood. California, which was called the Far West at the time, was the first Western state to become a state. After that, veins of gold, silver, copper, lead, and other minerals were discovered one after another in various places, so that the Western states came to be called mining states. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Far West" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…ところがその直前の1月下旬にカリフォルニアのシエラ･ネバダ山脈から金鉱が発見され，アメリカ領になってまもなく全米に知れわたり，49年には〈フォーティ･ナイナーズForty‐Niners〉とよばれる一獲千金を狙った人たちが東部からカリフォルニアに殺到，人口が規定の数を超えたカリフォルニアは50年に州に昇格した。当時極西部Far Westとよばれていたカリフォルニアが，西部のなかで一番早く州になったのである。その後西部各州は鉱山州とよばれるほど各地に金，銀，銅，鉛などの鉱脈が次々に発見された。…

※「Far West」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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