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Hard Road West: History and Geology Along the Gold Rush Trail
by Keith Heyer Meldahl  Publisher Comments In 1849, news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, and fertile soil of the eastern United States in favor...
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Anybody's Gold PB OSI
by Joseph 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....
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Eldorado: Adventures in the Path of Empire (California Legacy)
by Bayard Taylor Publisher Comments When news of the madness of California's gold rush hit New York, Horace Greeley, publisher of the New York Tribune, looked about for a reporter to send. Taylor, thoughtful, and at the same time fully engaged in the madness, offered his readers detailed...
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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
by Susan Lee Johnson Publisher Comments Explore the dynamic social world created by the Gold Rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills around Stockton through snapshots of prose that enter the encampments of some of the pioneers who forged ahead out West. 15 photos and one map....
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The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War
by Leonard L. Richards Publisher Comments In this revelatory study, award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards makes clear the links between the California Gold Rush and many of the regional crises in the lead-up to the Civil War....
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Eldorado
by Dale L Walker Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-365) and index....
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California History Sesquicentennial #02: A Golden State
by James J Rawls Publisher Comments A collection of essays on mining and economic development in California from the Gold Rush through the end of the 19th century. This is the second in a series of four volumes comemmorating the state's sesquicentennial....
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I, Joaquin: A Fictional Memoir
by Melvin Litton Synopsis Before Jesse James or Billy the Kid, before Villa, Zapata or Che Guevara, there was Joaquin -- lover, bandit, revolutionary -- not only a Hispanic hero, but an American hero, a character born of a fervent mix of people and culture. Melvin Litton's I...
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Mexican Gold Trail: The Journey of a Forty-Niner
by George Evans Publisher Comments On February 20, 1849, twenty nine-year-old attorney George W. B. Evans set out from Defiance, Ohio, determined to make a fortune for his wife and family in the gold rush. He kept a painstaking record of his journey to California on one of the least known...
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They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush
by Joann Levy Publisher Comments Countless letters, diaries, and reminiscences survive to testify to their feelings and their achievements, to their experiences coping with adversity--and the freedom--they found at the frontier. In their own words they tell us how they laid another...
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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....
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With Great Hope: Women of the California Gold Rush
by Joann Chartier Publisher Comments Luzena Stanley Wilson became a gold rush banker, storing gold dust in bread pans in her camp oven. Mary Graves survived cannibalism in the Sierras. Madame Moustache lost the love of her life, and her fortune, in a silver camp in Nevada. A storyteller...
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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...
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On the Trail to the California Gold Rush
by Alonzo Delano Publisher Comments Lured by "the astonishing accounts of the vast deposits of gold in California," Alonzo Delano (1806-74) of Ottawa, Illinois, bid farewell to his wife and children and joined the rush to El Dorado. For the next five months--April to early September 1849...
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The Fraser River Gold Rush of 1858 As Reported by the California Newspapers of 1858 Was It a Humbug Signed
by Lewis J. Swindle Publisher Comments The chronological history of the Fraser River Gold Rush of 1858, as viewed and reported by the newspapers of that era, the information being obtained from the miners and correspondents who journeyed to the Fraser River....
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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...
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John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier
by Albert L Hurtado Publisher Comments Mining a wealth of sources, Albert L. Hurtado delivers the definitive biography of John Sutter, a Swiss expatriate who founded New Helvetia, a settlement in California's Sacramento Valley which drew overland immigrants to California in the 1840s and then-...
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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....
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Journals of Forty Niners
by Leroy R Hafen Publisher Comments Western history is all the richer thanks to LeRoy and Ann Hafen, who have assembled a fascinating array of diaries and memoirs of forty-niners who set out from Salt Lake City toward California’s gold fields over the Old Spanish Trail. For many...
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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....
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