Claiming the Land: British Columbia and the Making of a New El Dorado

by Daniel Marshall and Daniel P. Marshall

This trailblazing history of early British Columbia focuses on the 1858 Fraser River gold rush. Marshall's detailed account becomes an adventure, prospecting the rich pay streaks of B.C.'s " founding" event and the gold fever that gripped populations all along the Pacific Slope. In doing so, Marshall unsettles many of our romanticized assumptions about the Fraser rush. He shows how foreign miner-militias crossed the 49th parallel, taking the law into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155380502X
• ISBN13: 9781553805021
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Ronsdale Press
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.8"