What was the Gold Rush?
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What Was the Gold Rush? -- Striking Gold -- Gold Fever -- Rushing West -- Working a Claim -- A Miner's Week -- Striking It Rich (or Not) -- Law and Order -- Boomtowns -- Mining Gets Harder -- How the Gold Rush Changed America -- Timelines.
Describes the nineteenth century American gold rush, and includes information on gold rush "boomtowns," relations between Native Americans and gold rush pioneers, and the importance of the gold rush on American history.
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COMMUNITY REVIEWS
is there still gold there submitted by liqian on August 1, 2019, 3:01pm that would be cool
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What was...?
PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : Grosset & Dunlap, c2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 105 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0448465779
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Tomkinson, Tim.
SUBJECTS
Gold mines and mining -- California -- History -- 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life -- California.
California -- Gold discoveries.
California -- History -- 1846-1850.
California -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.