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Days of gold : the California Gold Rush and the American nation / Malcolm J. Rohrbough.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 353 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520922075
  • 0520922077
  • 0585031703
  • 9780585031705
  • 0520216598
  • 9780520216594
  • 9780520206229
  • 0520206223
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Days of gold.DDC classification:
  • 979.4/01 20
LOC classification:
  • F865 .R655 1997eb
Online resources:
Contents:
California's Golden Revolution: Enormous Wealth and Great Confusion -- Gold Fever: The Beginning -- "This is a Hard Thing, This Breaking Up of Families": Gold and Its Personal Costs -- Journey and Arrival: Coming to California, Coming to Terms -- Old Bonds and New Allegiances: "Me and John Stick Together Like Wood Ticks" -- The Scarcity of Women: "I Have Not Spoken to a Lady for Five Months" -- "I Could Sell Some of the Furniture": Adjustments in the East -- Occupations: The 49ers Begin Work -- "The Real Argonauts of '49": Life and Leisure in the Gold Fields -- The Urban 49ers: "A Very Good Chance to Make Money in This City" -- Women in the California Gold Rush: Duty, Adventure, and Opportunity -- Harsh Realities: Hard Luck and Hard Labor in the Gold Fields -- "Capitalists Will Take Hold": High-Stakes Investments and Deferred Returns -- Threats from Within, Threats from Without: Fear, Hostility, and Violence in the Gold Rush -- Waiting: A Permanent Condition -- Lost Love, Lost Families -- The Permanent Lure of Success, the Enduring Shame of Failure: "When a Person Gits to California It Is Hard to Say or Tell When He Gets Away" -- The Ripples Subside: The End of the Gold Rush -- "The Days of Old, the Days of Gold, the Days of Forty-Nine": The Gold Rush and Memory -- Historians and Sources.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-346) and index.

California's Golden Revolution: Enormous Wealth and Great Confusion -- Gold Fever: The Beginning -- "This is a Hard Thing, This Breaking Up of Families": Gold and Its Personal Costs -- Journey and Arrival: Coming to California, Coming to Terms -- Old Bonds and New Allegiances: "Me and John Stick Together Like Wood Ticks" -- The Scarcity of Women: "I Have Not Spoken to a Lady for Five Months" -- "I Could Sell Some of the Furniture": Adjustments in the East -- Occupations: The 49ers Begin Work -- "The Real Argonauts of '49": Life and Leisure in the Gold Fields -- The Urban 49ers: "A Very Good Chance to Make Money in This City" -- Women in the California Gold Rush: Duty, Adventure, and Opportunity -- Harsh Realities: Hard Luck and Hard Labor in the Gold Fields -- "Capitalists Will Take Hold": High-Stakes Investments and Deferred Returns -- Threats from Within, Threats from Without: Fear, Hostility, and Violence in the Gold Rush -- Waiting: A Permanent Condition -- Lost Love, Lost Families -- The Permanent Lure of Success, the Enduring Shame of Failure: "When a Person Gits to California It Is Hard to Say or Tell When He Gets Away" -- The Ripples Subside: The End of the Gold Rush -- "The Days of Old, the Days of Gold, the Days of Forty-Nine": The Gold Rush and Memory -- Historians and Sources.

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