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Gold Rush Saints: California Mormons and the Great Rush for Riches.(Book review)
California History
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September 22, 2006|
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COPYRIGHT 2006 California Historical Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.
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GOLD RUSH SAINTS: CALIFORNIA MORMONS AND THE GREAT RUSH FOR RICHES
By Kenneth N. Owens (Spokane, Washington: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2004, 398 pp., $39.50 cloth, $19.95 paper)
This important volume produced by Kenneth N. Owens, professor emeritus of History and Ethnic Studies at California State University, Sacramento, explores the activities of the Mormons or Latter-day Saints in early Gold Rush California. Owens notes that the "Mormon role in the California gold rush has been largely overlooked" [17] first by contemporary observers and later by ...
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