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The rush : America's fevered quest for fortune, 1848-1853 / Edward Dolnick.
In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as hundreds of thousands of men and women borrowed money, quit their jobs, and allowed themselves- for the first time ever-to imagine a future of ease and splendor. In The Rush , Edward Dolnick brilliantly recounts their treacherous westward journeys by wagon and on foot, and takes us to the frenzied gold fields and the rowdy cities that sprang from nothing to jam-packed chaos. With an enthralling cast of characters and scenes of unimaginable wealth and desperate ruin, The Rush is a fascinating-and rollicking-account of the greatest treasure hunt the world has ever seen.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316175685
- ISBN: 0316175684
- Physical Description: xii, 350 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, and Company, 2014.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-339) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue -- Part I: Hope -- Chapter one: A crack in time -- Chapter two: "I believe I have found a goldmine" -- Chapter three: Headlong into history -- Part II: Journey -- Chapter four: Swarming in from all over -- Chapter five: A day at the circus -- Chapter six: An army on the march -- Chapter seven: Let us glory in our magnificence -- Chapter eight: A rope of sand -- Chapter nine: Gone! -- Chapter ten: Marooned -- Chapter III: Reality -- Chapter eleven: First peeks at the golden land -- Chapter twelve: Hard times -- Chapter thirteen: At ease in a barbarous land -- Chapter fourteen: Taking the bread from American miners -- Chapter fifteen: The princess and the mangled hand -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Genre: | History. Nonfiction American History |
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