Roaring Camp
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1849
1850s
19th century
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Author_Susan Lee Johnson
bancroft prize winner
boom
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ca
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mining
sierra nevada
us history
west
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- ISBN 9780393320992
- Weight: 471g
- Dimensions: 140 x 208mm
- Publication Date: 14 Mar 2001
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Lee Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode.
Johnson explores the dynamic social world created by the Gold Rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Stockton, charting the surprising ways in which the conventions of identity—ethnic, national, and sexual—were reshaped. With a keen eye for character and story, she shows us how this peculiar world evolved over time, and how our cultural memory of the Gold Rush took root.
Susan Lee Johnson is Harry Reid Endowed Chair for the History of the Intermountain West at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
