Eldorado
the California Gold Rush
by Dale L. Walker
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"In Eldorado, award-winning historian Dale L. Walker presents the complete, often gaudy, always fascinating story of the California Gold Rush, the greatest mining bonanza in all of American history.
The story ranges from the discovery by a New Jersey carpenter at a sawmill north of Sutter's Fort to the advent of large-scale hydraulic mining that spelled the ruination of the land and the end of the boom days when a Forty-niner with a pick and a pan found "colors" in a streambed and earned his wages - an ounce of raw gold a day.".
"Walker's narrative of this pivotal event of American history is drawn from the lives and experiences of those "on the ground" in the rush, those who blazed the trails and settled the West in their search for the riches at the rainbow's end."--BOOK JACKET.
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Gold discoveries, Frontier and pioneer life, Pioneers, Biography, History, United states, history, 19th century, Frontier and pioneer life, california, California, gold discoveries, California, history, California, biography, Gold mines and miningPlaces
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Eldorado: The California Gold Rush
December 8, 2003, Forge Books
Paperback
in English
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Eldorado: The California Gold Rush
January 1, 2003, Forge Books
Hardcover
in English
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0312878338 9780312878337
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-365) and index.
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
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