The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream by H.W. Brands

The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream

H.W. Brands

584 pages first pub 2002 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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“I have found it.” These words, uttered by the man who first discovered gold on the American River in 1848, triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. California’s gold drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the ear...

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