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America's Golden Dream - Historian H.W. Brands' vigorous narrative history of the gold rush as a defining American event is an interpretive tour de force.(Book Review)
World and I
; Kevin Starr is the state librarian of California and history professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His most recent book, Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace: 1940--1950, is the sixth volume in his ongoing Americans and the California Dream series. THE AGE OF
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Disorder, crime, and punishment in the California Gold Rush
Montana; The Magazine of Western History
; When James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's mill on January 24, 1848, California was a Mexican province under Occupation by the United States Army. American military officers by and large permitted the existing local authorities-- the alcaldes-to remain in office. Alcaldes exercised broad
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Rush For Riches: Gold Fever And the Making of California.(Riches for All: The California Gold Rush and the World)(American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-class Culture. Cultural Studies of the United States)(Book Review)
California History
; ... adventure, exploitation, and transformation. Handsomely presented, the oversize volume has excellent illustrations, and many maps that are both informative and beautiful. Holliday incorporates details that stick in the reader's memory: In 1846, there was ...
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Next Gold Rush May Come From China Investments
The Journal Record
; America's next great gold rush is going to be in China. As that country changes to a market-driven economy, hastens social and political reforms and establishes new types of tax systems, it's going to need foreign help and investment. That investment is going to be in the neighborhood of $1
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YELLOW FEVER They went digging for their fortunes. But most found only poverty, mud, cholera and racial hatred. One hundred and fifty years later Sasha Abramsky reveals how the Californian Gold Rush of 1849 shaped modern America
The Independent - London
; "YOU KNOW not my feelings. I cannot live if you go any further. Oh return home. Sell your things and return to me. Save oh save my life. I cannot live if you go to California I fret and weep day and night I'm almost heartbroken," Sarah Nichols wrote from Buffalo, New York, to her husband, Samuel,
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