The age of gold
Subtitle: the California Gold Rush and the new American dream
By: H.W. Brands.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 547
Subjects: California -- Gold discoveries.; California -- Gold discoveries -- Social aspects.; United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865.; United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-527) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART ONE; title: The Gathering of Peoples; title: (From the World to California: 1848-1849) 21; title: 1. In the Footsteps of Father Serra 25; title: 2. Across the Pacific 47; title: 3. The Peaks of Darien 65; title: 4. To the Bottom of the World and Back 93; title: 5. To See the Elephant 122; title: 6. Where Rivers Die 162; title: PART TWO; title: From Vulcan's Forge; title: (The Goldfields: 1848-1850s) 191; title: 7. With a Washbowl on My Knee I95; title: 8. A Millennium in a Day 226; title: PART THREE; title: American Athena; title: (California: 1849-1856) 243; title: 9. The Miracle of St. Francis 247; title: 10. Sutter's Last Stand 269; title: 11. Shaking the Temple 287; title: 12. Children of the Mother Lode 305; title: 13. Reflections in an All-Seeing Eye 334; title: PART FOUR; title: The Gordian Knot and the Pacific Connection; title: (California and the Union: 1856-1869) 359; title: 14. The Pathfinder's Return 363; title: 15. South by West 382; title: I6. From Sea to Shining Sea 404; title: PART FIVE; title: The New El Dorado; title: (America in the Age of Gold) 439; title: 17. Prometheus Unbound 445; title: I8. American Dreamers 475.