Precious Dust: The Saga of the Western Gold Rushes

Marks, Paula Mitchell

ISBN 10: 0803282478 / ISBN 13: 9780803282476

Published by University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 1998

About this Item

8vo, 448 pp.

Seller Inventory # 103757

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Precious Dust: The Saga of the Western Gold Rushes
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803282478
• ISBN 13: 9780803282476
• Binding: softcover
• Illustrator: Illus. with photos
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • Western Americana

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Synopsis

The boom era began with the discovery of gold in California in 1848 and extended over fifty years to include the rushes in the Pikes Peak region in Colorado, the Black Hills of South Dakota, Alder Gulch in Montana, and the Yukon. Precious Dust humanizes the mad rush to these remote places.

About the Author

Paula Mitchell Marks’s books include And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Corral Gunfight. She teaches history at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas.