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Gold Rush Stories: 49 Tales of Seekers, Scoundrels, Loss, and Luck
Gold Rush Stories: 49 Tales of Seekers, Scoundrels, Loss, and Luck
Gold Rush Stories: 49 Tales of Seekers, Scoundrels, Loss, and Luck
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This volume explores the deeply human stories of the California Gold Rush generation, drawing out all the brutality, tragedy, humor, and prosperity as lived by those who experienced it. In less than ten years, more than 300,000 people made the journey to California, some from as far away as Chile and China. Many of them were dreamers seeking a better life, like Mifflin Wistar Gibbs, who eventually became the first African American judge, and Eliza Farnham, an early feminist who founded California's first association to advocate for women's civil rights. Still others were eccentrics-perhaps none more so than San Francisco's self-styled king, Norton I, Emperor of the United States. As Gold Rush Stories relates the social tumult of the world rushing in, so too does it unearth the environmental consequences of the influx, including the destructive flood of yellow ooze (known as "slickens") produced by the widespread and relentless practice of hydraulic mining. In the hands of a native son of the Sierras, these stories and dozens more reveal the surprising and untold complexities of the Gold Rush.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHeyday
Release dateMay 5, 2017
ISBN9781597143851
Gold Rush Stories: 49 Tales of Seekers, Scoundrels, Loss, and Luck
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Gary Noy

A native of Grass Valley, California, Gary Noy has taught history at Sierra Community College since 1987. Noy is the author of Sierra Stories: Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots, and Rogues (2014) and Gold Rush Stories: 49 Tales of Seekers, Scoundrels, Loss, and Luck (2017), both copublished by Heyday and Sierra College Press. In 2016, Sierra Stories received the Gold Medal for Best Regional Non-Fiction from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Visit his website at garynoy.com.

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