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Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California Hardcover - 1999

by Holliday, J. S

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Berkley, CA: University of California Press, 1999. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 11 1/4h x 8 1/2w. A real nice clean unmarked 366 page first edition hardcover with 1 low in number line. In this vivid account of the birth of modern California, J.S. Holliday frames the gold rush years within the larger story of the state's transformation from the quietude of a Mexican hinterland in the 1840s to the forefront of entrepreneurial capitalism by the 1890s. No other state, no nation experienced such an adolescence of freedom and success. By 1883 California was hailed as "America, only more so."Holliday also conjures the ambitious, often ruthless Californians whose rush for riches rapidly changed the state: the Silver Kings of the Comstock Lode, the timber barons of the Sierra forests, the Big Four who built the first transcontinental railroad, and the lesser profit-seekers who owned steamboats, pack mules, gambling dens and bordellos-and, most important for California's future, the farmers who prospered by feeding the rapidly growing population..
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  • Title Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California
  • Author Holliday, J. S
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 366
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkley, CA
  • Date 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6412
  • ISBN 9780520214019 / 0520214013
  • Weight 4.26 lbs (1.93 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.87 x 9.11 x 1.36 in (30.15 x 23.14 x 3.45 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects California - History - 1850-1950, California - Gold discoveries
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97036896
  • Dewey Decimal Code 979.404

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J.S. Holliday (1924-2006), author of The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience (continuously in print since 1981), was the Director Emeritus of the California Historical Society and former Director of the Oakland Museum of California; Associate Professor of American History at California State University, San Francisco; and Assistant Director of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. A popular lecturer, he appeared in several television documentaries, including Ken Burns's series "The West."

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