{"product_id":"the-world-rushed-in-the-california-gold-rush-experience-9780806134642","title":"The World Rushed in: The California Gold Rush Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen \u003cem\u003eThe World Rushed In\u003c\/em\u003e was first published in 1981, the \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e predicted, \"It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.\" Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment, and the book has gained recognition as a classic. As the \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Examiner\u003c\/em\u003e noted, \"It is not often that a work of history can be said to supplant every book on the same subject that has gone before it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough the diary and letters of William Swain--augmented by interpolations from more than five hundred other gold seekers and by letters sent to Swain from his wife and brother back home--the complete cycle of the gold rush is recreated: the overland migration of over thirty thousand men, the struggle to \"strike it rich\" in the mining camps of the Sierra Nevadas, and the return home through the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a new preface, the author reappraises our continuing fascination with the \"gold rush experience\" as a defining epoch in western--indeed, American--history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-1456161\"\u003eJ. S. Holliday\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/29\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 578\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.06w x 1.22d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806134642\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 080613464X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS036040\"\u003eUnited States | 19th Century\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42663761510637,"sku":"9780806134642","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_519d031c-384a-4182-9fdd-8350b2b2175c.jpg?v=1649395936","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-world-rushed-in-the-california-gold-rush-experience-9780806134642","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}