Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Johnson, William Weber

The forty-niners by William Weber Johnson - Time-Life Books 1974 - 240 p

Includes Index and Bibliography

Gold, gold, gold in California! --
Sailing for El Dorado --
Rough realities of grubbing for gold --
Sprouting shantytowns --
Boomtown on the bay --
Wondrous end of a wild quest.

An account of the California gold rush of 1849 and the people who participated, lavishly illustrated with contemporary photographs and paintings.

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--History --1846-1850.

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