The Great Egg Rush of 1849

There's money to be made in dem' der' eggs:


"You've heard of the San Francisco gold rush. But that rush spurred another, lesser-known event: the egg rush. The legions of miners who swept into the region in the 1850s hoping to strike gold all had to be fed. And they needed protein to stay strong. But when food shortages hit, wily entrepreneurs looked for eggs in an unlikely source: the Farallon Islands."

In 1849 Gold discovered and people need protein - chickens are scare, but what's sitting there close to San Franciso - millions of birds sitting on nuggets of money -EGGS.



The Great Egg war - shootings, drunken fights, and the close extinction of a bird species

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/15/487644637/the-gold-hungry-forty-niners-also-plundered-something-else-eggs