Gold dust /

Jackson, Donald Dale, -1935

Gold dust / Donald Dale Jackson. - New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1980 - x, 361 p. : ill., maps 25 cm.

The saga of the forty-niners-their adventures and ordeals, their courage and greed, their ingenuities, delusions, bonanzas and catastropes-in California and on the way there.--Cover

Bibliography: p. [335]-345.

The vividly personal story of the great California gold rush is told in terms of the adventures, ordeals, delusions, and catastrophes of the men and women caught up in it.

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Frontier and pioneer life
Voyages to the Pacific coast.--California.

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