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Cover and edges shows wear. Pages are clean and intact.

xiv+303pp; indexed. No name or writing.

Here is the story of the years during which 600 million dollars in gold were lifted from stream beds, washed down from dry diggings, and crushed from hard quartz in what is still known as the Gold Country. 304 pages including index. B&W illustrations. Light creasing along spine. Lovely copy.

XIV; 305 S.; Illustr.; 23 cm; kart. Gutes Ex.; Einband leicht berieben. - Englisch. - Here is the story of the years during which 600 million dollars in gold was lifted from stream beds, washed down from dry diggings, and crushed from hard quartz in what is still known as the Gold Country. ANYBODY'S GOLD is filled with famous names: John Sutter, John C. Fremont, Lola Montez, Lotta Crabtree - and some infamous ones: Joaquin Murieta, Three-Fingered Jack, Madame Moustache, Rattlesnake Dick, and Black Bart. But mostly it is the story of clerks from Boston and Philadelphia, farmers from Indiana and Iowa, who came to seek their fortunes in the goldfields, and the dancehall girls and "good women" who followed them. Their story is as glittering and seductive as the gold itself. The towns they founded bear names that testify to the romance of the era: Hangtown, Yankee Jim's, Whisky Hill, and Rough & Ready. Drawing on personal knowledge of the area, publications of the period, and unpublished personal diaries, the late Joseph Henry Jackson compiled this vivid and definitive narrative that splendidly recreates the excitement of California's most dramatic decade. (Verlagstext) / INHALT : Prologue: Before the Gold ---- "Off to Californy " ---- The Age of Innocence ---- The "Honest Miner" ---- "Scoundrels from Nowhere" ---- The Concord was a Lady ---- Shakespeare Song and Dance ---- The Cow and the Quartz ---- The Mines Come of Age ---- Epilogue: Postscript to Gold. ISBN 0877012733 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550

Tanning/general wear to jacket. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.