Australians and the Gold Rush / Jay Monaghan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monaghan, Jay, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (423 p.) : 1 frontisp.

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Where Is California?

2. Be First in San Francisco!

3. Tasmania Hears about the Rush

4. Australia's New England Starts for the Diggings

5. Cruise of the Elizabeth Archer

6. Off to the Mother Lode

7. Gold Rush Crescendo: A Good Outlet for Expirees

8. Keep Women Out of California!

9. Three Musketeers in California's Outback, 1850

10. Hargraves Returns to a Different Australia

11. Hargraves Crosses the Divide

12. Gold Discovery in Australia!

13. Australians Learn about California Lynchings

14. The Greatest Goldfield of Them All

15. The Irish Patriots Escape

16. Are Californians Dangerous Revolutionists?

17. Rebels and Redcoats

18. The Shot Not Heard Round the World

Notes

Sources

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520323568

0520323564

OCLC:

1198931542