After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley
After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley
$55.00
Vaught, David
Cl. Baltimore, 2007
Book ID: 73953
Examines the hard-luck miners turned farmers - the Pierces, Montgomerys, Careys, and others - who, after the gold rush, refused to admit a second failure, faced flood and drought, endured monumental disputes and confusion over land policy, and struggled to come to grips with the vagaries of local, national, and world markets.
309 pp., B&W photos, drawings.