Gold rush ballads
Subtitle: 1849
By: Cornel Lengyel, editor ; prepared with the assistance of the Work Projects Administration of California ; sponsored by the City and County [of] San Francisco.
Contributors: Lengyel, Cornel Adam.; United States. Work Projects Administration (Calif.)
Edition: Special school ed.
Series: History of music in San Francisco series -- v. 2 [Special school ed.]
Publisher: History of Music Project
Published: 1940
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: Ballads, English -- California.; Folk songs, English -- California.; California -- Gold discoveries -- Songs and music.
Genres: Songs and music.
Notes: "A selection of ballads sung in San Francisco during the gold rush era (1849-1859), picturing the life and times of the Forty-niners, their great trek across the wilderness, their adventures in El Dorado as miners, gamblers, stage-drivers, firemen, and ordinary citizens"

Includes bibliographical references (l. 62-63).