Spreading the Word: A History of Information in the California Gold Rush

ISBN-10: 0803243251
ISBN-13: 9780803243255
Series: Spreading the Word
Category: History
Pages: 274
Language: English
Published: 2006
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Author: Richard Thomas Stillson

Description

A study of the ways in which Americans from the east, who traveled to the "gold country" of California in 18491851, obtained and used information.

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