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Roaring camp : the social world of the California Gold Rush / Susan Lee Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Susan Lee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnic relations.
- Mining camps.
- History.
- Gold mines and mining.
- Social aspects.
- California--Gold discoveries--Social aspects.
- California.
- California--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Manners and customs.
- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--Gold discoveries--Social aspects.
- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.).
- Mining camps--Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--History--19th century.
- California--Ethnic relations.
- Gold mines and mining--Social aspects.
- United States--Sierra Nevada.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 464 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Social world of the California Gold Rush
- Gold Rush
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, 2001.
- Summary:
- "Susan Lee Johnson's Roaring Camp explores the dynamic social world created by the gold rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Stockton. In it we find Mexican families like the Murrietas who worked the mines, did the wash, and rose up against Anglo rule. There are the California Indians who tried to maintain their customary practices even while helping to construct the sawmill at Sutter's fort where gold was discovered in 1848. We enter the all-male households of the diggings, the mines where the men worked, and the fandango houses where they played. At places like Casa de los Amigos in Stockton, the Long Tom Saloon in Sonora, and Madame Clement's in Mariposa, California, gold found its way out of the hands of men from around the world into the hands of women from Mexico, Chile, and France."--BOOK JACKET.
- "Johnson charts the ways in which the conventions of identity were reshaped in the diggings. More explicitly than back home, where gender could be mapped predictably onto bodies understood as male and female, gender in California chased shamelessly after racial and cultural markers of difference, heedless of bodily configurations."--BOOK JACKET.
- Contents:
- Joaquin Murrieta and the Bandits
- On the Eve of Emigration
- Domestic Life in the Diggings
- Bulls, Bears, and Dancing Boys
- Mining Gold and Making War
- Dreams That Died
- The Last Fandango
- Telling Tales.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-448) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393320995
- 9780393320992
- OCLC:
- 45901753
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