San Antonio College Library

Hill's letters recount the Mt. Pleasant Mining Company (from Iowa) moving across country to California in 1849, and life in the mining camps. He described economic information, labor conditions, commodity prices, early exhaustion of the placer mines, and transition to quartz mining. After three years, he returned to Iowa without wealth.

A history of the people and commercial imperatives that contributed to the California gold rush discusses the massive influx of hundreds of thousands of people to the area, which became a state in record time.

The California Gold Rush began in 1848 and incited many?wagons west.? However, only half of the 300,000 gold seekers traveled by land. The other half traveled by sea. And it?s the story of this second group that interests Malcolm Rohrbough in his authoritative new book, The Rush to Gold. He examines the California Gold Rush through the eyes of 30,000 French participants. In so doing, he offers a completely original analysis of an important?but previously...

An account of the 1848 gold rush routes across Mexico, to California known as the El Dorado trail. Steeped in primary sources such as diaries, reminiscences and letters, the author vividly describes the hazards that the con men and the adventurers had along the way.

The experiences of such individuals as John Sutter, Lola Montez, Mark Twain, Kit Carson, and John Muir are touched upon in a work that considers the river's rich history and crucial role in the nation's development.

Here, published for the first time, are Harris's colorful reminiscences of his experiences on the Gila Trail and in the Mother Lode mining camps in 1849-50.