Exotic animals and the hunt for gold - The University of New..

Men, women and their families arrived in large numbers to northern California with the dream of striking it rich during the mid-19th century. What most people don’t know about the California Gold Rush is that exotic animals became as much a part of the...

Let's travel back in time to the Gold Rush in the 1850's:
You're sitting at the dinner table awaiting your Galápagos tortoise and sea turtle dinner while sitting next to your pet kangaroo?

Yep, you read that right according to this UNM Anthropology Ph.D. candidate, that could have happened. Check it out!