Plotting the Golden West: American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail

by Stephen Fender

Book Overview

This book focuses on the experience of the Californian Gold Rush of 1849-1850, not in terms of what happened (a subject much covered by historians) but in terms of how people of various levels of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521239249
• ISBN13: 9780521239240
• Release Date: February 1982
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"