Roaring Camp
Subtitle: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780393320992
First sentence: When Rosa Feliz de Murrieta and her husband, Joaquin, chose to leave Sonora in 1849 and start out on the overland journey north to California, they were trying to improve their lot in life.