Heyday Books, March 1998. Trade Paperback. The Shirley Letters, written from the mining camps in 1851 and 1852, are something valuable and rare--a portrait by a woman of an era dominated by men. They offer a vivid picture of gold rush life, from accounts of "murders, fearful accidents, bloody deaths.....
University of Oklahoma Press, September 1992. Trade Paperback. "The phrase 'seeing the elephant' symbolized for '49 gold rushers the exotic, the mythical, the once-in-a-lifetime adventure, unequaled anywhere else but in the journey to the promised land of fortune: California. Most western myths . . . generally depict an exclusively male.....
David K. Webb, 1950. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 2 pages. Limited to 200 copies. From Daily Scioto Gazette, Monday Morning, June 17, 1850. Walke reports on mining activities in Coloma on the South Fork of the American River. First edition (first printing). Very good copy in brown wrappers (paperback), stapled.....
George P. Putnam, 1850. Hardcover. Second edition. 2 vols, 251, 247 pages with 14 pages of advertising. Eight lithographic plates, colored, at frontis and bound into the text of each volume. 'This work by an eminent writer and artist is probably the outstanding book on the early gold rush in.....
University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. Hardcover.
William P. Wreden, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. 55 pages. Introduction by Richard Brautigan. Illustrations by Patricia Oberhaus. Typographic design by Jack Werner Stauffacher, the Greenwood Press, San Francisco. Francl, a native of Bohemia, in the Czech republic, was an early pioneer in the American west (he is credited - online.....
N.A. Kovach, 1946. Hardcover. 58 pages.
University of California, 1914. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in printed wrappers (paperback).
Friends of the Huntington Library, January 1942. Hardcover.
Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 109 pages. One of 400 copies. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Inscribed by Paquette to a previous owner on the title page.
Lewis Osborne, 1968. Hardcover. The true facsimile of the 1850 edition, including the original color plates. Published by Lewis Osborne. Illustrated.
Zanel Publications, January 1980. Trade Paperback.
D. Appleton-Century Company, January 1941. Hardcover.
Chronicle Books, January 1982. Trade Paperback. This classic Chronicle book remains available as a print-on-demand title. You can purchase it from an online bookseller or by order from your local bookstore.
Vanderbilt University Press, November 1997. Hardcover. Other than the Civil War, no single event of the nineteenth century affected so many Americans as did the California Gold Rush of 1849. Responding with the same enthusiasm shown by the Mexican War volunteers, Tennessee gold seekers rushed to be among the first.....
Sacramento Genealogical Society. Trade Paperback.
Biobooks, 1956. Hardcover. 156 pages. Limited edition, 1/700 copies.
Mary Edith Crosley, 1959. Trade Paperback.
Western History Association, January 1987. Hardcover.