Gold Dust

by Donald Dale Jackson

Book Overview

The California Gold Rush! Except for the Civil War, no other event in nineteenth-century America caused such an upheaval. The discovery of gold in John Sutter's mill race, in that year of glory 1848,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785819126
• ISBN13: 9780785819127
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Castle Books
• Length: 361 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Incredible what people did to get to the gold fields

Well written account of the ways in which fortune hunters traveled to the golden state. Full accounts of the social and political make-up of early American California.