The World Rushed In. The California Gold Rush Experience. An Eyewitness Account.

Holliday, J. S.

ISBN 10: 0575032367 / ISBN 13: 9780575032361

Published by Victor Gollancz, London, 1983

About this Item

559pp, index, sources, notes, appendix, bw ills, maps, endpaper maps. Or cloth backed papered boards in jacket. Very slight edge wear to jacket. Builds on the diary and letters of gold seeker William Swain with the use of some 500 diaries and letter collections the book gives an accurate eyewitness acount of California's gold rush. Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 026401

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The World Rushed In. The California Gold Rush Experience. An Eyewitness Account.
• Publisher: Victor Gollancz, London
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0575032367
• ISBN 13: 9780575032361
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First UK Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Gems, Minerals and Mining
  • Americana & Canadiana

About this title

Synopsis

Provides a dramatic re-creation of the exciting events during the California Gold Rush, combining letters, firsthand accounts, and historical narrative

About the Author

J. S. Holliday is former Executive Director of the California Historical Society and of the Oakland Museum of California and Associate Professor of History at California State University at San Francisco, he is also the author of rush for Riches: Gold Fever & the Making of California.