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Days of gold: the California Gold Rush and the American nation

Malcolm J Rohrbough
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xiii)
  • INTRODUCTION (page 1)
  • ONE CALIFORNIA'S GOLDEN REVOLUTION: Enormous Wealth and Great Confusion (page 7)
  • TWO GOLD FEVER: The Beginning (page 21)
  • THREE "THIS IS A HARD THING, THIS BREAKING UP OF FAMILIES": Gold and Its Personal Costs (page 32)
  • FOUR JOURNEY AND ARRIVAL: Coming to California, Coming to Terms (page 55)
  • FIVE OLD BONDS AND NEW ALLEGIANCES: "Me and John Stick Together Like Wood Ticks" (page 72)
  • SIX THE SCARCITY OF WOMEN: "I Have Not Spoken to a Lady for Five Months" (page 91)
  • SEVEN "I COULD SELL SOME OF THE FURNITURE" Adjustments in the East (page 106)
  • EIGHT OCCUPATIONS: The 49ers Begin Work (page 119)
  • NINE "THE REAL ARGONAUTS OF '49": Life and Leisure in the Gold Fields (page 135)
  • TEN THE URBAN 49ERS: "A Very Good Chance to Make Money in This City" (page 155)
  • ELEVEN WOMEN IN THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH: Duty, Adventure, and Opportunity (page 172)
  • TWELVE HARSH REALITIES: Hard Luck and Hard Labor in the Gold Fields (page 185)
  • THIRTEEN "CAPITALISTS WILL TAKE HOLD": High-Stakes Investments and Deferred Returns (page 197)
  • FOURTEEN THREATS FROM WITHIN, THREATS FROM WITHOUT: Fear, Hostility, and Violence in the Gold Rush (page 216)
  • FIFTEEN WAITING: A Permanent Condition (page 230)
  • SIXTEEN LOST LOVE, LOST FAMILIES (page 243)
  • SEVENTEEN 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" (page 256)
  • EIGHTEEN THE RIPPLES SUBSIDE: The End of the Gold Rush (page 267)
  • NINETEEN "THE DAYS OF OLD, THE DAYS OF GOLD, THE DAYS OF FORTY-NINE": The Gold Rush and Memory (page 283)
  • HISTORIANS AND SOURCES (page 295)
  • NOTES (page 309)
  • INDEX (page 347)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAH 85.1 (June 1998): 241-242 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28199806%2985%3A1%3C241%3ADOGTCG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J
JEH 58.2 (June 1998): 613-614 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-0507%28199806%2958%3A2%3C613%3ADOGTCG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-F
AHR 103.1 (Feb. 1998): 278-279 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199802%29103%3A1%3C278%3ADOGTCG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P
WHQ 29.2 (Summer 1998): 225 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-3810%28199822%2929%3A2%3C225%3ADOGTCG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J
PHR 68.2 (May 1999): 332-334 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0030-8684%28199905%2968%3A2%3C332%3ADOGTCG%3E2.0.CO%3B2-6
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Published: c1997
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520922075 (ebook)
  • 9780520206229 (hardcover)
Subject
  • American: 1789-1899
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