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What was the gold rush? / by Joan Holub ; illustrated by Tim Tomkinson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: What was--?Publication details: New York : Grosset & Dunlap, c2013.Description: 105 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780448462899
Other title:
  • Gold rush?
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 979.4/04 23
LOC classification:
  • F865 .H697 2013
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.
Summary: Text and illustrations look at the nineteenth-century gold rush in California.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-105).

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.

Text and illustrations look at the nineteenth-century gold rush in California.

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