Book review 1-12 「California」

Do you know about the California? Now, California is one of the most famous states all over the world. Over million people visit this state every year. This state is also famous American film business, computers, and wine. It is wonderful place to stay or live there. But only 150 years ago, it was just a land of desert and mountains. What happened during 150 years?
California became a free state in 1850. 2 years before this year, very important event happened in this state. On January 24, 1848, Mr. Marshall who was working on the land where was later to become the city of Sacramento found something bright and yellow in a river. He discovered small pieces of gold! After this event, many news paper companies told the story of Marshall’s discovery. The news has been spread across the world, and soon, a lot of men from all over the world started to come to this state. They wanted to find gold, and be rich. They were often called “Forty-niners” because most of them arrived in 1849. This was started of the Gold Rush.
Soon, this state became big and had many big cities. By 1852, there were more than 100,000 prospectors in California. And then, in the 1860, people discovered something new in the ground. They called it black gold. Because it soon made them very rich. Do you know what it is? It is oil.
There are the summaries of the history of CA. and today, there are many beautiful and lively cities in CA. For example, San Francisco, Monterey, Los Angeles, San Diego, Long Beach, Anaheim.
I have ever been to CA for a month as a home stay. And I have been to many sightseeing spot in CA, like Hollywood, Disney land, universal studio. CA has hot and dry climate through a year, and temperature goes up to over 30℃ in every day time, and fall under 10℃ in night time because of desert climate. It has almost sunny days through a year.
CA has many attractive places to sightseeing or travel. But, if you leave from megalopolis and go to the nature place, you will find great nature! It is very magnificent, and emotional. If you are planning to go to CA, I recommend that you should go both place city and nature. It must be fun! (395words)