The gold rush diary of Ramón Gil Navarro
By: Ramón Gil Navarro ; edited and translated by María del Carmen Ferreyra and David S. Reher.
Contributors: Ferreyra, María del Carmen.; Reher, David Sven.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Navarro, Ramón Gil, d. 1883 -- Diaries; Gold mines and mining -- Social aspects -- California; Argentines -- California -- Diaries; Mexican Americans -- California -- Social conditions -- 19th century; California -- Gold discoveries -- Social aspects; California -- Social conditions -- 19th century; California -- Race relations
Genres: Diaries.
Description: "Gold! gold! gold! This seductive mantra, shouted throughout the Americas in 1848-49, convinced thousands of people that California's gold could be had simply by picking it up off the ground. Ramon Gil Navarro, an Argentinean political exile living in Chile, heard these rumors of a new El Dorado, but he was not so naive as to believe that the gold merely had to be gathered.

He understood that mining required extensive capital investment and labor, and along with three other investors he arranged to have 120 workers and a shipload of supplies sent to California. Navarro accompanied the workers to Stockton and began prospecting.".

"Navarro encountered people from all over the world brought together in a society marked by racial and ethnic intolerance, swift and cruel justice, and great hardships. It was a world of contrasts, where the roughest of the rough lived in close proximity to extremely refined cultural circles."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-291) and index.