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Days of Gold, The California Gold Rush and the American Nation
by Malcolm Rohrbough
- HISTORY
- 1998
- PAPER
- 569 PAGES
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This vivid, eyewitness history draws on diaries, letters, and other archival sources, letting the (mostly) men speak directly of the discovery of gold in California on the morning of January 24, 1848. Rohrbough shows, in vivid detail, the impact of the 49ers on the development of the west.
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