The Georgia Gold Rush
Subtitle: Twenty-Niners, Cherokees, and Gold Fever
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: February 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781570030529
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; United States - State & Local - General; Native American; History; History - U.S.; History: American; Georgia; United States - Antebellum Era; United States - General
First sentence: As the story goes, on a crisp autumn day in the Georgia mountains young Benjamin Parks was returning home from a "lick log" on the western side of the Chestatee River where he and his friend, Lew Ralston, provided salt for their livestock.