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Holub, Joan.
What was the Gold Rush?
[HC] /
by Joan Holub ; illustrated by Tim Tomkinson.
New York, N.Y. :
Grosset & Dunlap,
2013.
105 p., [16] p. of plates :
ill. ;
20 cm.
What was
Includes bibliographical references.
What Was the Gold Rush? -- Striking Gold -- Gold Fever -- Rushing West -- Working a Claim -- A Miner's Week -- Striking It Rich (or Not) -- Law and Order -- Boomtowns -- Mining Gets Harder -- How the Gold Rush Changed America -- Timelines.
Describes the nineteenth century American gold rush, and includes information on gold rush "boomtowns," relations between Native Americans and gold rush pioneers, and the importance of the gold rush on American history.
20130227.
Frontier and pioneer life
California
Juvenile literature.
Gold mines and mining
California
History
19th century
Juvenile literature.
California
Gold discoveries
Juvenile literature.
California
History
1846-1850
Juvenile literature.
California
Social life and customs
19th century
Juvenile literature.
Tomkinson, Tim,.
What was.