World Rushed In
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: June 8, 1983
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780671255381
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Social history; Pioneers; History - General History; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9); United States - State & Local - General; Juvenile Nonfiction; History - U.S.; Overland journeys to the Pacific; USA; History / General; History / United States / State & Local; California; Swain, William,; History - United States/19th Century; 1846-1850; Biography; Gold discoveries; History
First sentence: In midsummer 1848, city and small-town newspapers in the United States told of political debate in Washington over a plan to prohibit the expansion of slavery into the West and specifically into the territories recently conquered from Mexico.