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Roaring Camp

The Social World of the California Gold Rush

Roaring Camp( )
Author: Johnson, Susan Lee
ISBN:978-0-393-04812-4
Publication Date:Feb 2000
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $29.95
Book Description:

Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film--of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold--is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. She finds a dynamic social world in which the conventions...
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