The Forty-Niners
Publisher: Ross & Perry,
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781932080834
Subjects: American history; United States - State & Local - West; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA
First sentence: THE dominant people of California have been successively aborigines, conquistadores, monks, the dreamy, romantic, unenergetic peoples of Spain, the roaring melange of Forty-nine, and finally the modern citizens, who are so distinctive that they bid fair to become a subspecies of their own.