num_pages: 466
description: Winner of the Bancroft Prize The world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Lee Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. Johnson explores the dynamic social world created by the Gold Rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Stockton, charting the surprising ways in which the conventions of identity―ethnic, national, and sexual―were reshaped. With a keen eye for character and story, she shows us how this peculiar world evolved over time, and how our cultural memory of the Gold Rush took root. Maps, illustrations.
language: English
title: Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
titlecomplete: Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
genres: American, History, American History, 19th Century, Class, Westerns, Grad School, Research, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 210
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Bancroft Prize, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: W. Turrentine-Jackson Prize
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company