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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
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ISBN: 0393320995
Author: Johnson Ph.D., Susan Lee
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Winner of the Bancroft PrizeThe world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Lee Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode.Johnson explores the dynamic social world created by the Gold Rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Stockton, charting the surprising ways in which the conventions of identity-ethnic, national, and sexual-were reshaped. With a keen eye for character and story, she shows us how this peculiar world evolved over time, and how our cultural memory of the Gold Rush took root. Maps, illustrations.
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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush