What was the Gold Rush?

Title:

Personal Author EPSB:

Summary:

Describes the nineteenth century American gold rush, and includes information on gold rush "boomtowns," relations between Native Americans and gold rush pioneers, and the importance of the gold rush on American history.

Year Published:

2013

Series:

What was...?

Physical Description:

105 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.

Contents:

What Was the Gold Rush? -- Striking Gold -- Gold Fever -- Rushing West -- Working a Claim -- A Miner's Week -- Striking It Rich (or Not) -- Law and Order -- Boomtowns -- Mining Gets Harder -- How the Gold Rush Changed America -- Timelines.

Subject:

Gold mines and mining -- California -- History -- 19th century -- Literature.

Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Literature.

Gold mines and mining -- California -- History -- 19th century.

Frontier and pioneer life -- California.

Geographic Term:

California -- Gold discoveries -- Juvenile literature.

California -- History -- 1846-1850 -- Juvenile literature.

California -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.

California -- Gold discoveries.

California -- History -- 1846-1850.

California -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.