Eldorado
Subtitle: The California Gold Rush
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Forge Books
Published: January 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780312878337
Subjects: United States - 19th Century; United States - State & Local - General; History / United States / 19th Century; History - General History; History - U.S; 1846-1850; 19th century; Biography; California; Frontier and pioneer life; Gold discoveries; History; Pioneers; History: American
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.