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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,