HSPLS site	Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   My Account   Databases   HI Newspaper   eBooks/Audiobooks   Learning   PC Reservation   Reading Program

Basic Advanced Power History

Search:  Title BrowseAuthor BrowseSubject BrowseBest Seller BrowseMusic Title BrowseVideo/DVD Title BrowseJournal/Newspaper Title BrowseSerial Title BrowseSeries Browse (includes Bestseller List)General KeywordTitle KeywordAuthor KeywordSubject KeywordName KeywordSeries KeywordScore Title BrowseTalking Book Title BrowseAwards Note BrowseBib No.Barcode       Refine Search     > You're searching: HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM

Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Dolnick, Edward, 1952- author.     Subjects     Gold mines and mining -- California.     Pioneers -- West (U.S.)     Overland journeys to the Pacific     California -- Gold discoveries.     California -- History -- 1846-1850.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Dolnick, Edward, 1952- author.       by title:      The rush : America's...         MARC Display

The rush : America's fevered quest for fortune, 1848-1853 / Edward Dolnick. by Dolnick, Edward, 1952- author. New York : Little, Brown, and Company, 2014. Subjects Gold mines and mining -- California.   Pioneers -- West (U.S.)   Overland journeys to the Pacific   California -- Gold discoveries.   California -- History -- 1846-1850. ISBN:  9780316175685 : Description:  xii, 350 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Hope. A crack in time ; "I believe I have found a gold mine!" ; Headlong into history -- Journey. Swarming from all over ; A day at the circus ; An army on the march ; Let us glory in our magnificence ; A rope of sand ; Gone! ; Marooned -- Reality. First peeks at the Golden Land ; Hard times ; At ease in a barbarous land ; Taking the bread from American miners ; The princess and the mangled hand. Requests:  0 Summary:  Describes the adventurous prospectors who traversed the United States in 1848 in response to rumors of gold in the Sacramento Valley, detailing the rough and rowdy cities that popped up, seemingly out of thin air, to accommodate the treasure-seekers.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 979.404 Do Checked In Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.