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Pages: 306
Authors: Leonard L. Richards
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-02-12 - Publisher: Vintage

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Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come.
Days of Gold
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Authors: Malcolm J. Rohrbough
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-09-01 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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On the morning of January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold in California. The news spread across the continent, launching hundreds of ships and hitch
The Age of Gold
Language: en
Pages: 594
Authors: H. W. Brands
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12-10 - Publisher: Anchor

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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War—the epic story of the California Gold Rush, “a fine, rob
The California Gold Rush
Language: en
Pages: 223
Authors: Mark A. Eifler
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-22 - Publisher: Routledge

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In January of 1848, James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. For a year afterward, news of this discovery spread o
California and the Civil War
Language: en
Pages: 176
Authors: Richard Hurley
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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In the long and bitter prelude to war, southern transplants dominated California government, keeping the state aligned with Dixie. However, a murderous duel in