The California Gold Rush: (Reissue) (Landmark Book)

On January 24 1848 James Marshall discovered a small nugget of gold in a stream near Sutters Mill California. Though he tried to keep it a secret word spread through the country like wildfire. Before the year was out the great American Gold Rush had begun. Heres a true-life story that re-creates a time when people from all walks of life dropped what they were doing and headed west with picks and shovels in the hope of finding riches--and added a brand-new chapter to our countrys history.