Days of Gold
Subtitle: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 15, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 569
ISBN-13: 9780520216594
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Cultural studies; Social history; United States - 19th Century/Old West; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - State & Local - General; History / General
First sentence: ON MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1848, at about ten o'clock in the morning, James W. Marshall, employed by the entrepreneur John Sutter to construct a sawmill on the American River, picked some flakes of mineral out of the tailrace.