The California Gold Rush and the Klondike Gold Rush: The History of America’s Most Famous Gold Rushes

Rush to Gold: The French and the California Gold Rush, 1848†“1854 9780300182187

The California Gold Rush began in 1848 and incited many “wagons west.” However, only half of the 300,000 gold seekers tr

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Blacks in Gold Rush California 9780300162134

By 1860, twelve years after the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill, more than five thousand American blacks had made the

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Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation 9780520922075, 0520922077

On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continen

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Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush 9781501707346

Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California

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Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation [Reprint 2019 ed.] 9780520922075

On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continen

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The Gold Rush 9781838713737, 9781844576401

Matthew Solomon’s study of Chaplin’s The Gold Rush (1925) provides an in-depth discussion of the film’s production and r

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Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation [Reprint 2019 ed.] 9780520922075

On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continen

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Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush 9780520920552

Celebrating the 150th birthday of the state of California offers the opportunity to reexamine the founding of modern Cal

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The California Gold Rush [Reprint 2020 ed.] 9780520338845

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The California Gold Rush: The History and Legacy of the Forty-Niners and America’s Golden Dream

*Includes pictures. *Includes primary accounts of the gold rush. *Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further read

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