Originally Posted By wa6oqc The Disney Insider has an article titled Keeping It Real on the Red Planet <a href="http://disney.go.com/disneyinsider/insider/article/20110714" target="_blank">http://disney.go.com/disneyins...20110714</a> "A Civil War veteran seeks his fortune in the California gold rush – and ends up on a strange planet, surrounded by four-armed green warriors, savage monsters, and fetching princesses." If my history is correct wasn't the California Gold Rush from 1849-1855 or so? Now wasn't the Civil War from 1861-1865? So how could a Civil War veteran seek his fortune in the California Gold Rush? Let's keep it real... Maybe Disney could have taken some license and made John Carter a member of the Jessie James' gang or something so it was more historically correct! Yes, there were gold miners in California anfer the Civil Was but is was no longer the "Gold Rush" era. Granted I will likely see the movie but the facts just aren't there.
Originally Posted By basil fan John Carter is a Civil War soldier in the book. Can't recall if there's anything about the Gold Rush, though. Disney Glitches <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/glitch/disneyglitch.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/...tch.html</a>
Originally Posted By DlandDug In the Edgar Rice Burroughs version, Carter is a Civil War veteran who finds gold in California. The "Gold Rush" formally ended in 1859, when silver was discovered in Nevada. But people continued to find gold afterward. I would assume that using the phrase "gold rush" in the press material sounds a little more glamorous...
