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Roaring camp the social world of the California Gold Rush /

"Susan Lee Johnson's Roaring Camp explores the dynamic social world created by the gold rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Stockton. In it we find Mexican families like the Murrietas who worked the mines, did the wash, and rose up against Anglo rule. There are the California India...

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Main Author: Johnson, Susan Lee.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, 2001.
Physical Description: 464 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Subjects:
Mining camps -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- History -- 19th century.
California -- Gold discoveries -- Social aspects.
California -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Gold discoveries -- Social aspects.
California -- Ethnic relations.

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