Volunteer Forty-Niners

by Walter T. Durham

Other than the Civil War, no single event of the nineteenth century affected so many Americans as did the California Gold Rush of 1849. Responding with the same enthusiasm shown by the Mexican War volunteers, Tennessee gold seekers rushed to be among the first from the South to reach the California mines.

In Volunteer Forty-Niners, Walter T. Durham provides the first comprehensive examination of the role Tennessee and Tennesseans played...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826512984
• ISBN13: 9780826512987
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"