With golden visions bright before them

trails to the mining West, 1849-1852

With golden visions bright before them
Will Bagley, Will Bagley
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With golden visions bright before them

trails to the mining West, 1849-1852

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With golden visions bright before them: trails to the mining West, 1849-1852
2012, University of Oklahoma Press
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Table of Contents

Men of enterprise and adventure : the rush begins
Avarice seems to rule : the forty-niners set out
Which road to take? : South Pass to City of Rocks
First flight of forty-niners : the race to the goldfields
Shortcuts to death : cutoffs, detours, and delusion in 1849
A new and shorter route : Lassen's Horn
Passing swarms : the trails in 1850
The very windows of heaven : the bust of 1851
The great tide of emigration : the trails in 1852
This insatiate thirst for gold : the birth of the mining West.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Norman
Series
Overland West : the story of the Oregon & California Trails and the creation of the mining West -- v. 2

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
304.80978
Library of Congress
F593 .B138 2012, F593.B138 2012

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25252861M
ISBN 13
9780806142845, 9780870624186
LCCN
2012008720
OCLC/WorldCat
780415684

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