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Eldorado: The California Gold Rush by Dale L Walker Publisher Comments With the exception of the call to arms in the North and South in 1861, no moment of nineteenth-century America was more electrifying than the shout, "GOLD ON THE AMERICAN RIVER!" first heard in San Francisco in the spring of 1848. Within a year, tens of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Tombstone's Treasure: Silver Mines and Golden Saloons by Sherry Monahan Publisher Comments The silver rush in Tombstone, Arizona, created one of the most sophisticated towns in the American West, complete with lavish saloons, gambling, ice cream parlors, and a swimming pool.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gold!: The Story of the 1848 Gold Rush and How It Shaped a Nation by Fred Rosen Publisher Comments There isn't an American alive today who hasn't been affected by what happened at Sutter's Fort east of Sacramento on January 24, 1848. Carpenter James Marshall was building a sawmill when he accidentally discovered a pea-shaped nugget of gold in a ditch.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush by Susan Lee Johnson Publisher Comments Winner of the 2001 Bancroft Prize.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Golden Dream: California from Gold Rush to Statehood by Kerry Drager Publisher Comments A grand tour of the history of the Golden State, rich with photographs of the 1848-1850 gold discovery-to-statehood era. Published to commemorate California's Sesquicentennial.... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream by H. W. Brands Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-527) and index.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Anybody's Gold PB OSI by Joseph Henry Jackson Publisher Comments This classic Chronicle book remains available as a print-on-demand title. You can purchase it from an online bookseller or by order from your local bookstore.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gold Rush Port: The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco's Waterfront by James P. Delgado Publisher Comments Described as a "forest of masts," San Francisco's Gold Rush waterfront was a floating economy of ships and wharves, where a dazzling array of global goods was traded and transported. Drawing on excavations in buried ships and collapsed buildings from... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $39.94 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Days of Gold: California Gold Rush & the American Nation by Malcolm J Rohrbough Publisher Comments On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continent, launching hundreds of ships and hitching a thousand prairie schooners filled with adventurers in search of heretofore unimagined... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gold Fever: California's Gold Rush (American Icon Close-Up Guides) by Carl Nolte Synopsis January 24, 1848, was a day that changed everything. The flecks of yellow metal, found in the American River by James Marshall, proved to be the foundation of modern California. Fortune hunters succumbed to gold fever and flocked to the Sierra Nevada... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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World Rushed in by J S Holliday Publisher Comments The World Rushed In is a pioneering achievement in historical writing, at once a personal, intimate story of one man's search for wealth and the definitive account of the California gold rush. Building upon the copious journals of gold seeker William... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Gold!: The Story of the 1848 Gold Rush and How It Shaped a Nation by Fred Rosen Publisher Comments In this engaging history, Rosen chronicles the story of the 1848 Gold Rush, which began at Sutter's Fort east of Sacramento with the accidental discovery of gold. Rosen then goes on to show how this event shaped the nation from that time forward.... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The World Rushed in: The California Gold Rush Experience by J Holliday Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 508-540) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eldorado: The California Gold Rush by Dale L. Walker Publisher Comments Gold Gold on the American River This declaration, shouted in the streets of San Francisco in the spring of 1848, electrified the nation, and its echo was heard in the farthest corners of the globe. In the five years that followed, tens of thousands of... (read more) Your price: $6.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Rush for Riches by J S Holliday Publisher Comments In this vivid account of the birth of modern California, J.S. Holliday frames the gold rush years within the larger story of the state's transformation from the quietude of a Mexican hinterland in the 1840s to the forefront of entrepreneurial capitalism... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Gold Dust by Donald Dale Jackson Publisher Comments Drawing upon a wide variety of documentary sources--letters and diaries, as well as contemporary newspaper and magazine reports--the author shows us gold fever running like fire through the cities of the East. Immediate, rich in detail, here is history... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $3.25 Used - Hardcover
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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream by H W Brands Publisher Comments “I have found it.” These words, uttered by the man who first discovered gold on the American River in 1848, triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. California’s gold drew fortune-seekers from the ends... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Gold Rush Port: The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco's Waterfront by James P. Delgado Publisher Comments Described as a "forest of masts," San Francisco's Gold Rush waterfront was a floating economy of ships and wharves, where a dazzling array of global goods was traded and transported. Drawing on excavations in buried ships and collapsed buildings from... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Days of Gold by Malcolm J Rohrbough Publisher Comments On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continent, launching hundreds of ships and hitching a thousand prairie schooners filled with adventurers in search of heretofore unimagined... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Gold Rush: A Literary Exploration by Michael Kowalewski Synopsis In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the California gold rush comes this definitive literary anthology.... (read more) List Price $18.48 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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