Gold fever : the lure and legacy of the California gold rush
Presents an account of the birth of modern California. This book frames the gold rush years within the larger story of the state's transformation from the quietude of a Mexican hinterland in the 1840s to the forefront of entrepreneurial capitalism by the 1890s.
Print Book, English, 1998
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998
History
pages cm
9780520214019, 9780520214026, 0520214013, 0520214021
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