Eldorado
the California Gold Rush
1st ed.
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Word Count
94,750 words, Guess
Page Count
379 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3578930M
- ISBN-100312878338
- OCLC Control Number51042057
- OCLC Control Numbereldoradocaliforn0000walk
- Library of Congress Control Number2002192534
and 2 more
- Goodreads3025759
- LibraryThing1872969
Classifications
- DDC979.4/04
- LCCF865 .W28 2003
Description
"In Eldorado, award-winning historian Dale L. Walker presents the complete, often gaudy, always fascinating story of the California Gold Rush, the greatest mining bonanza in all of American history. The story ranges from the discovery by a New Jersey carpenter at a sawmill north of Sutter's Fort to the advent of large-scale hydraulic mining that spelled the ruination of the land and the end of the boom days when a Forty-niner with a pick and a pan found "colors" in a streambed and earned his wages - an ounce of raw gold a day.". "Walker's narrative of this pivotal event of American history is drawn from the lives and experiences of those "on the ground" in the rush, those who blazed the trails and settled the West in their search for the riches at the rainbow's end."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
ON A GUSTY August day in 1839, a dozen or so American and European residents of the windblown village of Yerba Buena rowed out and boarded the Monsoon, a Boston trade ship and the sole vessel then anchored in San Francisco Bay.
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- Biography.
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