What was the Gold Rush?
by
Holub, Joan.
Title
:
What was the Gold Rush?
What was...?
Author
:
Holub, Joan.
Tomkinson, Tim, ill
ISBN
:
9780448462899
Personal Author
:
Holub, Joan.
Publication Information
:
New York, N.Y. : Grosset & Dunlap, c2013.
Physical Description
:
105 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Series
:
What was...?
Contents
:
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.
Subject Term
:
Gold mines and mining -- California -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
Frontier and pioneer life -- California -- Juvenile literature
Geographic Term
:
California National Historic Trail
California -- History -- 1846-1850 -- Juvenile literature.
California -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature.
Added Author
:
Tomkinson, Tim,