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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | California's Golden Revolution: Enormous Wealth and Great Confusion | 7 |
| 2 | Gold Fever: The Beginning | 21 |
| 3 | "This is a Hard Thing, This Breaking Up of Families": Gold and Its Personal Costs | 32 |
| 4 | Journey and Arrival: Coming to California, Coming to Terms | 55 |
| 5 | Old Bonds and New Allegiances: "Me and John Stick Together Like Wood Ticks" | 72 |
| 6 | The Scarcity of Women: "I Have Not Spoken to a Lady for Five Months" | 91 |
| 7 | "I Could Sell Some of the Furniture": Adjustments in the East | 106 |
| 8 | Occupations: The 49ers Begin Work | 119 |
| 9 | "The Real Argonauts of '49": Life and Leisure in the Gold Fields | 135 |
| 10 | The Urban 49ers: "A Very Good Chance to Make Money in This City" | 155 |
| 11 | Women in the California Gold Rush: Duty, Adventure, and Opportunity | 172 |
| 12 | Harsh Realities: Hard Luck and Hard Labor in the Gold Fields | 185 |
| 13 | "Capitalists will Take Hold": High-Stakes Investments and Deferred Returns | 197 |
| 14 | Threats from Within, Threats from Without: Fear, Hostility, and Violence in the Gold Rush | 216 |
| 15 | Waiting: A Permanent Condition | 230 |
| 16 | Lost Love, Lost Families | 243 |
| 17 | The Permanent Lure of Success, The Enduring Shame of Failure: "When a Person Gets to California It Is Hard to Say or Tell When He Gets Away" | 256 |
| 18 | The Ripples Subside: The End of the Gold Rush | 267 |
| 19 | "The Days of Old, The Days of Gold, The Days of Forty-Nine": The Gold Rush and Memory | 283 |
| Historians and Sources | 295 | |
| Notes | 309 | |
| Index | 347 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Andrew Morrison
reviewed Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation on December 30, 2012
Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation
Decent history on an interesting topic. The book draws almost entirely on primary material - particularly journals and letters but also some newspapers. As such it offers some unique insight but is weaker on the big picture context. The author also retreads some of the same ground at times, making it a bit longer than it needed to be.
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