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The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853

By Edward Dolnick

Book information

Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Year
2014
ISBN
0316175684, 9780316175685
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
9 MB (8999839 bytes)
Pages
368\0
Time added
2016-01-26 20:44:32

Description

A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell.In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as hundreds of thousands of men and women borrowed money, quit their jobs, and allowed themselves- for the first time ever-to imagine a future of ease and splendor. In THE RUSH, Edward Dolnick brilliantly recounts their treacherous westward journeys by wagon and on foot, and takes us to the frenzied gold fields and the rowdy cities that sprang from nothing to jam-packed chaos. With an enthralling cast of characters and scenes of unimaginable wealth and desperate ruin, THE RUSH is a fascinating-and rollicking-account of the greatest treasure hunt the world has ever seen.

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