Eldorado
Subtitle: The California Gold Rush
Publisher: Forge Books
Published: December 8, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780312878320
Subjects: U.S. History - Westward Expansion; History; History - General History; History - U.S; History: American; United States - 19th Century/Old West; History / United States / 19th Century; United States - 19th Century; United States - State & Local - General
First sentence: ON A GUSTY August day in 1839, a dozen or so American and European residents of the windblown village of Yerba Buena rowed out and boarded the Monsoon, a Boston trade ship and the sole vessel then anchored in San Francisco Bay.