mining camps
There were mining camps where the 49ers slept and ate at the Gold Rush. Mining camps were very busy. But miners were usually at their claim but the women and kids would spend most of their time in their house tending for meals. A lot of the time 49ers would go to a mining camp where there would be a women and possibly a child. Women would cook the meals and the child would set the table but sometimes there would not be a child and the women would have to do a lot more work. The miners would come into the tent or house and would pay to have the women cook for them. Sometimes though the women would be able to walk around the mining camp and some miners would pay to see a woman because they had abandoned there family for gold and hadn't seen a woman in a very long time. Most of tents would be made out canvas from the sail of the ship and would be hung on trees or if a miner was lucky enough to get some gold that they would be able to trade from wood they could support it with that wood.