Paul Robert Walker
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by Macmillan
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 27 cm.
Description
"In 1848, carpenter James Marshall made a chance discovery that would change the face of the American West. That discovery: a few shiny flakes-of gold in a riverbed he was digging. Within a year 800,000 gold-seekers from all over the world were on their way to California, and the Gold Rush was on. This book covers the entire period of the boom-and-bust of one of the greatest expansion periods in US history-from the dangers of the journey, to the rough...