Forty Niners
Series: Chronicles of America, Part 25
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780766160071
Subjects: American history; The Americas; United States - General; History - U.S.
First sentence: THE dominant people of California have been successively aborigines, conquistadores, monks, the dreamy, romantic, unenergetic peoples of Spain, the roaring melange of Forty-nine, and finally the modern citizens, who are so distinctive that they bid fair to become a subspecies of their own.