"In the spring of 1853 we grew tired of our diggings because we were entirely dependent on the rains for water and determined to seek a better place to mine. So James, Rezin Anderson, and I took our respective rolls of bedding on our backs and our rifles on our shoulders and started for Rabbit Creek in Sierra country. We arrived at Rabbit Creek when the snow was sixteen feet deep. All of the miners' cabins had steps cut in the snow down to the doors...The mines were all deep gravel channels from 25 to 125 feet deep on mountain spurs and ridges, and were worked by hydraulic pipes in which water was piped down into the cuts and thrown against the banks which were composed of quartz, gravel and sand. These immense gravel beds were once ancient river beds before the mountains and ridges upheaved, and all contained enough fine gold to pay richly for washing them away by hydraulic process. Through lines of sluice boxes the sand and gravel was dumped into the surrounding canyons which drained into the North fork of the Yuba River. Here the claims were 200 feet square. No man could have more than one claim. Every mining district in California in those days had their own laws made by the miners and by them enforced."Granville Stuart, A Memoir from California, 1852-1853Granville Stuart, Forty Years on the Frontier, edited by Paul C. Phillips (Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1925).The ideas expressed in the excerpt above reflect which of the following continuities in United States history?

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