Gold Rush Manliness: Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope

by Christopher Herbert

The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. Yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of the Victorian era: educated men who valued morality and order. Examining the closely linked gold rushes in California and British Columbia, historian Christopher Herbert shows that these men worried about the meaning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029574412X
• ISBN13: 9780295744124
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher