Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction Kenneth N. Owens 1. Gold-Rich Saints: Mormon Beginnings of the California Gold Rush Kenneth N. Owens 2. "We Will Make Our Fortunes--No Doubt of It": The Worldwide Rush to California Malcolm J. Rohrbough 3. "The Greatest and Most Perverted Paradise": Forty-Niners in Latin America Brian Roberts 4. Clouded Legacy: California Indians and the Gold Rush Albert L. Hurtado 5. "My Brother's Keeper": Mexicans and the Hunt for Prosperity in California, 1848-2 Michael J. Gonzalez 6. Never Far from Home: Being Chinese in the California Gold Rush Sylvia Sun Minnick 7. "Do You Think I'll Lug Trunks?" African Americans in Gold Rush California Shirley Ann Wilson Moore 8. Disorder, Crime, and Punishment in the California Gold Rush Martin Ridge 9. Where Have All the Young Men Gone? The Social Legacy of the California Gold Rush Elizabeth Jameson 10. The Last Fandango: Women, Work, and the End of the California Gold Rush Susan L. Johnson 11. After California: Later Gold Rushes of the Pacific Basin Jeremy Mouat 12. From Gold Pans to California Dredges: The Search for Mass Production in Placer Mining Clark C. Spence 13. The Last Great Gold Rush: From California to the Klondike in the Nineteenth Century Charlene Porsild 14. Begun by Gold: Sacramento and the Gold Rush Legacy after 150;Years Kenneth N. Owens List of Contributors; Index

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With lively and incisive strokes, the contributors to this collection paint the most complete and nuanced portrait of the California Gold Rush to date

About the Author

Kenneth N. Owens is a professor emeritus of history at California State University. He is the editor of The Wreck of the Sv. Nikolai and John Sutter and a Wider West, both published by the University of Nebraska Press.

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"The most important collection of books on western and American Indian history."