Mining Camps of Placer County

by Carmel Barry-Schweyei, Alycia S. Alvarez, Alycia S Alvaresj

Book Overview

Everything in Placer County history leads to gold, from its name--the Spanish term for gold-bearing gravel--to the mining camps that sprouted overnight in its rugged river canyons. Ecstatic cries of "Gold on the American River " in 1848 launched the largest voluntary migration in the history of the world. As claims "panned out," thousands of miners swarmed like locusts between the rough-and-tumble mining camps, from the crest of the Sierra Nevada...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738529508
• ISBN13: 9780738529509
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.3"