CALIFORNIA HISTORY


Books

Holliday, J.S. The World Rushed In -- The California Gold Rush Experience. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1981

The World Rushed In is unlike any other book ever written about that astonishing adventure, the California gold rush. A pioneering achievement in the use of historical documents, this book is at once an intimate, personal story and an all-encompassing record of the gold rush as national experience. Building on the extraordinary diary and letters of a gold seeker named William Swain, enlarging his experience through the use of more than 500 diaries and letter collections of other men, J.S. Holliday gives the reader a compelling opportunity to be part of the life and times of the 49ers.

Beilharz, Edwin A. and Lopez, Carlos. We Were 49ers -- Chilean Accounts of the California Gold Rush. Ward Richie Press, Pasadena, CA, 1976. [out of print]

Jackson, Donald Dale. Gold Dust. Alfred Knopf, New York, 1980.


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