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The Gold rush / J.D. Lloyd, book editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: History firsthandPublication details: San Diego : Greenhaven Press, c2002.Description: 221 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0737708816 (lib. bdg.)
  • 9780737708813 (lib. bdg.)
  • 0737708808 (pbk.)
  • 9780737708806 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 979.4/04 21
Contents:
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.
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library 979.404/GOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39844400016131

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.

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