The Gold rush /
The Gold rush /
J.D. Lloyd, book editor.
- San Diego : Greenhaven Press, c2002.
- 221 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
- History firsthand .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-216) and index.
Discovery: Stumbling upon gold / James Marshall -- Empire crumbles / John Sutter -- Territory transformed / Walter Colton -- Reporting to the east coast / Thomas Larkin -- Rush-Heading westward: Leaving it all behind / Deward W. McIlhany -- Passage by sea / Enos Christman -- Into the wild plains / David R. Leeper -- Crossing the Isthmus of Panama / Mary Jane Megquier -- San Francisco and beyond / Edwin G. Waite -- Crossing the Sierra Nevada / William G. Johnston -- Prospecting for gold: Apprenticeship in gold hunting / William Kelly -- Diggings on the Mokelumne River / Bayard Taylor -- Running the sluices / Daniel C. Fletcher -- Working a wild river / L. Dow Stephens -- Dry digging on Weaver's Creek / E. Gould Buffum -- Trying and failing / William S. McCollum -- Daily life in mine country: Impressions of a trader / Franklin A. Buck -- Mining camp / Eliza W. Farnham -- Dandy in the mine / James H. Carson -- At the close of day / Leonard Kip -- Fickle weather / Jean-Nicolas Perlot -- Lady tries her hand / Dame Shirley -- Miner's Sunday / Prentice Mulford -- Wild and Lawless frontier: Gamblers / James H. Carson -- Bear encounter / Daniel Knower -- Calamities in Sacramento / Dr. Jacob Stillman -- Frontier justice / J.D. Borthwick -- Rough spectacle / William Perkins -- San Francisco fire of 1851 L.J. Hall.
0737708816 (lib. bdg.) 9780737708813 (lib. bdg.) 0737708808 (pbk.) 9780737708806 (pbk.)
1046030 QBI
2001042923
Frontier and pioneer life--California--Sources.
Pioneers--California--Biography.
Gold miners--California--Biography.
California--Gold discoveries--Sources.
California--Social conditions--19th century--Sources.
California--Biography.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-216) and index.
Discovery: Stumbling upon gold / James Marshall -- Empire crumbles / John Sutter -- Territory transformed / Walter Colton -- Reporting to the east coast / Thomas Larkin -- Rush-Heading westward: Leaving it all behind / Deward W. McIlhany -- Passage by sea / Enos Christman -- Into the wild plains / David R. Leeper -- Crossing the Isthmus of Panama / Mary Jane Megquier -- San Francisco and beyond / Edwin G. Waite -- Crossing the Sierra Nevada / William G. Johnston -- Prospecting for gold: Apprenticeship in gold hunting / William Kelly -- Diggings on the Mokelumne River / Bayard Taylor -- Running the sluices / Daniel C. Fletcher -- Working a wild river / L. Dow Stephens -- Dry digging on Weaver's Creek / E. Gould Buffum -- Trying and failing / William S. McCollum -- Daily life in mine country: Impressions of a trader / Franklin A. Buck -- Mining camp / Eliza W. Farnham -- Dandy in the mine / James H. Carson -- At the close of day / Leonard Kip -- Fickle weather / Jean-Nicolas Perlot -- Lady tries her hand / Dame Shirley -- Miner's Sunday / Prentice Mulford -- Wild and Lawless frontier: Gamblers / James H. Carson -- Bear encounter / Daniel Knower -- Calamities in Sacramento / Dr. Jacob Stillman -- Frontier justice / J.D. Borthwick -- Rough spectacle / William Perkins -- San Francisco fire of 1851 L.J. Hall.
0737708816 (lib. bdg.) 9780737708813 (lib. bdg.) 0737708808 (pbk.) 9780737708806 (pbk.)
1046030 QBI
2001042923
Frontier and pioneer life--California--Sources.
Pioneers--California--Biography.
Gold miners--California--Biography.
California--Gold discoveries--Sources.
California--Social conditions--19th century--Sources.
California--Biography.
979.4/04