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California gold : a novel / John Jakes.
James Macklin Chase was a poor Pennsylvanian who dreamed of making it rich in California. But at the turn of the century, the money to be made was in oil, citrus, water rights, and the railroads. Mack would have it all, if he had his way. And along the way, the men and women he met, the passion he found, the enemies he made, and the great historical figures like William Randolph Hearts, Leland Stanford, and Theodore Roosevelt, he encountered, helped bring glory to the extraordinary century. "Riveting...CALIFORNIA GOLD strikes pay dirt....
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- ISBN: 0394561066
- Physical Description: 658 pages : 1 map ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st edition
- Publisher: New York : Random House, c1989.
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| Genre: | Historical fiction. Western stories. |
