This edition has all new maps and an added chapter on the Kern River area. Good introduction to the gold bearing areas. Authentic and interesting reading for an

Expanded and updated edition of a classic best-seller. Desert gold locations in Nevada, New Mexico and Utah have been added. Locations in California and Arizona

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.

A study of the ways in which Americans from the east, who traveled to the "gold country" of California in 18491851, obtained and used information.

During the nineteenth century tens of thousands of Chinese men and women crossed the Pacific to work, trade, and settle in California. Drawn initially by the go