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xxxi, 477 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (page 477) and index. |
| Contents |
Before the rush: The Northern Maidu / Marie Potts ; Las sergas de Esplandian / Garci Rodriguez Ordonez de Montalvo ; Two years before the mast / Richard Henry Dana, Jr. ; Echoes of the past / John Bidwell ; On land and sea in 1843, '44, and '45 / William H. Thomes ; The emigrants' guide to Oregon and California / Lansford Hastings ; Recuerdos historicos y personales tocante a la alto California / Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo ; What I saw in California / Edwin Bryant ; Marshall's own account of the gold discovery / James W. Marshall ; The discovery of gold in California / John Sutter -- Getting there: To the golden shore / Peter Browning, editor ; Thirty years ago / George D. Dornin ; El dorado / Bayard Taylor ; Diary of a physician in California / James L. Tyson ; A letter to Frederick Douglass / James R. Starkey ; Letter from California / Hannchen Hirschfelder ; To California in 1849 through Mexico / A.D. Ferris ; Life on the Plains and among the diggings / Alonzo Delano ; A frontier lady / Sarah Royce ; Death Valley in '49 / William L. Manly ; The world rushed in / J.S. Holliday ; Letters from home / Rachel Ann Brown ; Pioneer days in California / John Carr ; The life and adventures of James P. Beckwourth / James P. Beckwourth ; Gold rush / J. Goldsborough Bruff -- Gold rush life: The arrival of whites / Andrew Freeman ; Letter to James Buchanan / Thomas O. Larkin ; Memoirs of General William T. Sherman / William Tecumseh Sherman ; Three years in California / Walter Colton ; A tour of duty in California / Joseph Warren Revere ; The glories of a dawning age / William Newell ; Discourses / Brigham Young ; Recuerdos historicos y personales tocante a la alta California / Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo ; Mining camps of the gold country ; Sixteen months at the gold diggings / Daniel B. Woods ; California correspondence / Alonzo Delano ; California as it is, and as it may be / Felix Wierzbicki ; Viaje a California / Vicente Perez Rosales ; A Frenchman in the gold rush / Ernest de Massey ; Journal of life at Sonora / William Perkins ; Early recollections of the California mines / James H. Carson ; A frontier lady / Sarah Royce ; Hunting for gold / William Downie ; A miner's Sunday in Coloma ; the gold rush songbook / Anonymous ; Three years in California / J.D. Borthwick ; Phoenixiana / George Horatio Derby ; Boyhood days / Ygnacio Villegas ; The life and adventures of Joaquin Murieta / John Rollin Ridge ; The narrative of a Japanese / Joseph Heco ; Mountains and molehills / Frank Marryat ; Story of my life / Wiliam Taylor ; California illustrated / John M. Letts ; Digging for gold without a shovel / Daniel Wadsworh Coit ; Pioneer days in California / John Carr ; Narrative of a journey round the world / Friedrich Gerstacker ; Indian boy hanged for stealing gold / William Joseph ; San Francisco Vigilance Committees / William T. Coleman ; Shadow and light / Mifflin Wistar Gibbs ; Letters to Tsi chow-Choo / Tse Chong-Chee ; Letters from San Francisco / Jerusha Merrill ; The Shirley letters / Louise Clappe ; The diary of a forty-niner / Chauncey L. Canfield, editor ; The miners' ten commandments / James M. Hutchings ; The household narrative of current events / Charles Dickens, editor ; The journal of Henry David Thoreau / Henry David Thoreau ; The conduct of life / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; A lady's second journey round the world / Ida Pfeiffer ; In camp and cabin / John Steele ; I hear the hogs in my kitchen / Mary Ballou ; Voyage medical en Californie / Pierre Garnier ; The land of gold: reality versus fiction / Hinton Helper ; California in-doors and out / Eliza Farnham ; The journal of Georgiana Bruce Kirby, 1852-1860 / Georgiana Bruce Kirby ; An emigrant of the fifties / James Clarke ; A California pioneer / Bernhard Marks ; Twenty-four years after / Richard Henry Dana, Jr. -- Legacies: Crusoe's island / J. Ross Browne ; California culinary experiences / Prentice Mulford ; The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras county / Mark Twain ; The luck of Roaring Camp / Bret Harte ; Roughing it / Mark Twain ; Dickens in camp / Bret Harte ; Life amongst the Modocs: unwritten history / Joaquin Miller ; An English-Chinese phrase book / Wong Sam and assistants ; California inter pocula / Hubert Howe Bancroft ; Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevadas / Clarence King ; California for health, pleasure, and residence / Charles Nordhoff ; The mountains of California / John Muir ; McTeague / Frank Norris ; The land of little rain / Mary Austin ; A peck of gold / Robert Frost ; Songs from gold mountain / Marlon K. Hom, editor ; Gold / Blaise Cendrars ; Ghost town / G. Ezra Dane ; The last days of the late, great state of California / Curt Gentry ; California rich / Stephen Birmingham ; History lesson / Janice Gould ; Thousand pieces of gold / Ruthanne Lum McCunn ; Questions for a Miwok uncle: Ahwahneechee man / Wendy Rose ; On the Western / Czeslaw Milosz ; Big dreams / Bill Barich ; California fault / Thurston Clarke ; The Klamath knot / David Rains Wallace ; What happened here before / Gary Snyder. |
| Summary |
Letters, accounts and essays on the discovery of gold, California as it was under Mexican rule, and the early years of California as a state. |
| Subject |
California -- Gold discoveries -- Miscellanea.
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California -- History -- 1846-1850 -- Miscellanea.
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Gold mines and mining. (OCoLC)fst00944469
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California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
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| Chronological Term |
1846-1850
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| Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea. (OCoLC)fst01921748
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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| Added Author |
Kowalewski, Michael.
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California Council for the Humanities.
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| ISBN |
0930588991 |
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9780930588991 |
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