Dubuque During the California Gold Rush

by Klein, Robert F.

• ISBN13: 9781609494919
• ISBN10: 1609494911
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-21
• Publisher: History Pr

Summary

In 1849, news from California Produced A Strange Alchemy in the region around Dubuque. Men used to the daily grind of the local lead mines felt a sudden fever for gold half a continent away. It was like a call to war, pulling the young men of the Midwest away to far-distant dimes for an adventure and nightmare they would struggle to explain to those who remained on the homefront. After meticulously combing through the correspondence between the Dubuque Forty-Niners and a home radically altered by their departure, Robert F. Klein examines one of the most fascinating periods of the American story from a fresh perspective. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 9
Introduction	p. 13
Dubuque: The Early Years	p. 15
"Zounds! Ezra, There Be Gold in California"	p. 29
Scratch Where It Itches	p. 34
Goin' to Git My Gold	p. 43
Except for the Gold, Not as Good as Iowa	p. 53
By Sea to the Gold Fields	p. 58
Overland to the Land of Gold: George Asbury Madeira and Family Cross the Plains	p. 81
A Woman's Perspective: The Experience of Mary Elmira Morrison	p. 93
After the Dust Had Settled	p. 103
"Sorry, Elmira…Not So Much"	p. 109
The Dubuque Forty-Niners	p. 112
Notes	p. 131
Bibliography	p. 141
Index	p. 151
About the Author	p. 157
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