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IN THE SWELTERING June of 1852, two years after California became a state and at the height of the Gold Rush, August Schuckman “came to the first sand desert” on the trail to the land of his dreams. It stretched for 41 miles. His wagon trek entered “at night and rode 19 hours in it”, Schuckman recorded in his journal. By the time they reached the next desert, the oxen died of thirst. “Thousands of cows, horses and mules were lying about dead,” Schuckman wrote. “The discarded wagons by the hundreds were driven together and burned.”
In his matter-of-fact tone, Schuckman, a German immigrant, described what many of the pioneers endured as they pursued the first incarnation of the California dream, a dream of El Dorado, of a Golden State. Hardship and risk-taking, hopes and crushing disappointments have been part of Californian lives ever since, through booms and busts, euphorias and depressions.
Indeed Mr Schuckman, one of hundreds of thousands who came to California during the Gold Rush, was so typical that he might have remained anonymous, had he not sired an impressive line of Californians. One of his grandsons was Pat Brown, governor from 1959 to 1967. Brown played a big part in defining that generation’s California dream—a vision of prosperous middle-class living—by building many of the freeways and aqueducts that today connect and irrigate the vast and dry state, and by turning its public universities into some of the world’s best factories for talent and innovation.

A. 어휘
SWELTERING 무더운, 더위에 지친. trail 황야의 길, 지나간 자국, 列(열).
trek 고된 여행, 소달구지로 하는 집단여행. journal 日記(일기).
mules 노새. discard 저버리다, 포기하다. immigrant 移民(이민).
endure 견디다. incarnation 실현, 化身(화신). El Dorado 황금의 땅(도시).
bust 破綻(파탄), 강타, 胸像(흉상). euphoria 행복감, 병적 쾌감.
anonymous 匿名(익명)의, 특성이 없는. sire 새끼를 만들다, 조상이 되다.
prosperous 번영하는. freeways=highways.
aqueducts 수로. irrigate 물을 대다, 灌漑(관개)하다.
innovation 혁신.