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Preface | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Gold-Rich Saints: Mormon Beginnings of the California Gold Rush | p. 29 |
"We Will Make Our Fortunes--No Doubt of It": The Worldwide Rush to California | p. 55 |
"The Greatest and Most Perverted Paradise": The Forty-Niners in Latin America | p. 71 |
Clouded Legacy: California Indians and the Gold Rush | p. 90 |
"My Brother's Keeper": Mexicans and the Hunt for Prosperity in California, 1848-2000 | p. 118 |
Never Far from Home: Being Chinese in the California Gold Rush | p. 142 |
"Do You Think I'll Lug Trunks?" African Americans in Gold Rush California | p. 161 |
Disorder, Crime, and Punishment in the California Gold Rush | p. 176 |
Where Have All the Young Men Gone? The Social Legacy of the California Gold Rush | p. 202 |
The Last Fandango: Women, Work, and the End of the California Gold Rush | p. 230 |
After California: Later Gold Rushes of the Pacific Basin | p. 264 |
From Gold Pans to California Dredges: The Search for Mass Production in Placer Mining | p. 296 |
The Last Great Gold Rush: From California to the Klondike in the Nineteenth Century | p. 317 |
Begun by Gold: Sacramento and the Gold Rush Legacy after 150 Years | p. 328 |
Contributors | p. 355 |
Index | p. 359 |
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