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Gold Rush -- California
The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is the Gold Rush in California.

Six Superlative Sources

· Holliday, J.S. The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience. Simon and Schuster, 1981.

· Johnson, Susan Lee. Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush. W.W. Norton, 2000.

· Levy, Jo Ann. They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush. University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.

· Rohrbough, Malcolm. Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation. University of California Press, 1997.

· Starr, Kevin. Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915. Oxford University Press, 1973.

· Starr, Kevin, and Orsi, Richard J., eds. Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture and Community in Gold Rush California. University of California Press, 2000.

Other Excellent Sources

· Holliday, J.S. Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California. University of California Press, 1999.

· Orsi, Richard J., and Rawls, James J. A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California. University of California Press, 1999.

· Paul, Rodman W. California Gold: The Beginning of Mining in the Far West. Harvard University Press, 1947.

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