Eldorado
Subtitle: the California Gold Rush
By: Dale L. Walker.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Forge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
Subjects: Pioneers -- California -- History -- 19th century; Pioneers -- California -- Biography; Frontier and pioneer life -- California; California -- Gold discoveries; California -- History -- 1846-1850; California -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In Eldorado, award-winning historian Dale L. Walker presents the complete, often gaudy, always fascinating story of the California Gold Rush, the greatest mining bonanza in all of American history.

The story ranges from the discovery by a New Jersey carpenter at a sawmill north of Sutter's Fort to the advent of large-scale hydraulic mining that spelled the ruination of the land and the end of the boom days when a Forty-niner with a pick and a pan found "colors" in a streambed and earned his wages - an ounce of raw gold a day.".

"Walker's narrative of this pivotal event of American history is drawn from the lives and experiences of those "on the ground" in the rush, those who blazed the trails and settled the West in their search for the riches at the rainbow's end."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-365) and index.
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."