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Land of golden dreams : California in the Gold Rush decade, 1848-1858 / Peter J. Blodgett.
LIBRA F865 .B6523 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blodgett, Peter J. (Peter John), 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gold mines and mining.
- History.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- California--Gold discoveries.
- California.
- California--Gold discoveries--Pictorial works.
- Frontier and pioneer life--California.
- Frontier and pioneer life--California--Pictorial works.
- Gold mines and mining--California--History--19th century.
- Gold mines and mining--California--History--19th century--Pictorial works.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 147 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library, [1999]
- Summary:
- The Huntington Library holds the most important collection of Gold Rush materials in the United States. This book, a companion piece to the Huntington exhibit of the same title, brings the Gold Rush era to life through vivid anecdotes taken from actual journal entries, newspaper articles, and letters of the period. Lavishly illustrated and well-researched, "Land of Golden Dreams" is accessible to both historian and lay reader alike.
- Contents:
- I The Adventure Begins 11
- Paths to El Dorado
- A Society on the Brink: Mexican California before the Gold Rush
- Gold Fever
- II Days of '49 35
- Planning the Trek to El Dorado
- The Great Migration
- Life in the Gold Country
- III California Transformed: Organizing a New Society, 1850-58 79
- Accommodating Social Change
- Defining a New California: The Constitution of 1849 and Political Life
- IV The Legacies of El Dorado 111
- Building the Commonwealth: Gold Discovery and California's Development
- Making Sense of It All: Interpreting the Gold Rush Experience.
- Notes:
- "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Land of golden dreams : California in the gold rush decade, 1848-1858, at the Huntington Library from September 28, 1999, through September 10, 2000"--T.p. verso.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0873281837
- 0873281829
- OCLC:
- 41880363
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