num_pages: 464
description: Captures the multiethnic, multicultural world of the California Gold Rush, in a richly textured social history that profiles the era's diverse and colorful characters, the evolution of a unique society, the sources of our legends and myths about the Gold Rush.
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, Grad School, Westerns, Nonfiction, American History, 19th Century, Research, Class, History
ratings_count: 210
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Bancroft Prize, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: W. Turrentine-Jackson Prize
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc