Gold Rush Bibliography

The following represents a preliminary bibliography of books and articles on the Gold Rush available at Brown's Rockefeller Library.  It is not intended to be comprehensive but rather to be suggestive of the wealth of materials touching on the Gold Rush that are available to Brown undergraduates.

“A Portfolio of Exhibitions; Stay East Young Man: California Gold Rush Lettersheets.”    California History Summer 1999: 98-102.

Aarim-Heriot, Najia. Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United   States, 1848-82. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Adkins, Jan. “A Metal far from Base.” Smithsonian July 1998: 14-15.

Albin, Ray R. “The Perkins Case: The Ordeal of Three Slaves in Gold Rush California.”    California History December 1988: 215-227.

Allen, W. W. and R. B. Avery. California Gold Book: first nugget, its discovery and discoverers,  and some of the results proceeding therefrom. San Francisco: Donohue and Henneberry,   printers and binders, 1893.

Andrist, Ralph K. “Gold!” American Heritage December 1962: 6-27, 90-91.

Apostol, Jane. “Argonauts with a New York Accent: Ithica to Agua Fria in 1849.” Southern   California Quarterly Spring 1993: 15-35.

Apostol, Jane. “Gold Rush Widow.” The Pacific Historian Summer 1984: 49-55.

Bakker, Elna S. An Island Called California: An Ecological Introduction to its Natural    Communities. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.

Barnhart, Jacqueline Baker. The Fair but Frail: Prostitution in San Francisco 1849-1900. Reno:   University of Nevada Press, 1986.

Barth, Gunther. Bitter Strength: A History of the Chinese in the United States 1850-1870.    Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964.

Bateson, Charles. Gold Fleet for California: Forty-Niners from Australia and New Zealand. East   Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1963.

Bean, Walton. California: An Interpretive History. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company,   1968.

Beasley, D.L. The Negro Trail Blazers of California. Los Angeles: Times Mirror Printing and   Binding House, 1919.

Beesley, David. “The Opening of the Sierra Nevada and the Beginnings of Conservation in    California, 1827-1900. California History Winter 1996/1997: 322-337.

Beilharz, Edwin A. and Carlos U. López, eds. We Were 49ers!: Chilean accounts of the    California Gold Rush.  Pasadena: Ward Ritchie Press, 1976.

Belden, Josiah. Josiah Belden: 1841 California Overland Pioneer. Ed. Doyce B, Nunis, Jr.   Georgetown: The Talisman Press, 1962.

Berthold, Victor M. The Pioneer Steamer California 1848-1849. Boston: Houghton Mifflin   Company, 1932.

Berwanger, Eugene H. The Frontier Against Slavery: Western Anti-Negro Prejudice and the   Slavery Extension Controversy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1967.

Bethel, A. C. W. “The Golden Skein: California’s Gold-Rush Transportation Network.”    California History Winter 1998-1999: 250-275.

Bidlack, Russell E. Letters Home: The Story of Ann Arbor’s Forty-Niners. Ann Arbor: Ann   Arbor Publishers, 1960.

Bidwell, John. Echoes of the Past about California. John Steele In Camp and Cabin. Chicago: The  Lakeside Press., 1928.

Bidwell, John. In California Before the Gold Rush. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1948.

Bieber, Ralph P. “California Gold Mania.” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review June 1948:   3-28.

Bieber, Ralph P. “The Southwestern Trails to California in 1849.” The Mississippi Valley    Historical Review December 1925: 342-375.

Bigler, Henry William. Bigler’s Chronicle of the West. Ed. Erwin G. Gudde. Berkeley: University  of California Press, 1962.

Birch, Keith R. “Philip T. Tyson: ‘The Jeremiah of the Gold Rush.’” Southern California   Quarterly Winter 1997: 409-430.

Bishop, M. Guy. Henry William Bigler: Soldier, Gold Miner, Missionary, Chronicler 1815-1900.  Logan: Utah State University Press, 1998.

Bludgett, Peter J. Land of Golden Dreams: California in the Gold Rush Decade, 1848-1858. San   Marino: Huntington Library, 1999.

Brands, H.W. The Age of Gold. New York: Doubleday, 2002.

Broussard, Albert S. “Slavery in California Revisited: The Fate of a Kentucky Slave in Gold   Rush California.” The Pacific Historian Spring 1985: 17-21.

Bruff, J. Goldsborough. Gold Rush: Journals and Drawings of J. G. Bruff. Ed. Georgia Willis   Read and Ruth Gaines. New York: Columbia University Press, 1944.

Buffum, Edward Gould. Six Months in the Gold Mines. New York: Readex Microprint    Corporation: 1966.

Burns, Walter Noble. The Robin Hood of El Dorado. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico   Press, 1999.

California Historical Society Quarterly. San Francisco: The California Historical Society.

Camarillo, Albert. Chicanos in a Changing Society: From Mexican Pueblos to American Barrios   in Santa Barbara and Southern California, 1848-1930. Cambridge: Harvard University   Press, 1979.

Campbell, Colin D., ed. “Crossing the Isthmus of Panama, 1849: The Letters of Dr. Agustus   Campbell.” California History Winter 1999/2000: 226-237.

Carrell, Jennifer Lee and Tim Raglin. “How the bard won the West.” Smithsonian August 1998:   98-105.

Carson, James H. Recollections of the California Mines: an account of the early discoveries of   gold, with anecdotes and sketches of California and miners’ life, and a description of the   Great Tulare Valley. Oakland: Biobooks, 1950.

Carter, Robert W. “‘Sometimes When I Hear the Winds Sigh’: Mortality on the Overland Trail.”   California History Summer 1995: 146-161.

Caughey, John Walton. Gold is the Cornerstone. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1948.

Caughey, John Walton, ed. Rushing for Gold.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1949.

Chalmers, Claudine. “Françoise, Lucienne, Rosali: French Women-Adventurers in the Early Days  of the California Gold Rush.” California History Fall 1999: 138-15.

Chatterjee, Pratap, “Gold, Greed, and Genocide.” News from Native California Spring 2003:   10-13.

Chidsey, Donald Barr. The California Gold Rush: An Informal History. New York: Crown   Publishers, Inc., 1968.

Chiu, Ping. Chinese Labor in California, 1850 1880 An Economic Study. Madison: Department   of History, University of Wisconsin, 1963.

Churchill, Charles William. Fortunes Are for the Few. Ed. Duane A. Smith and David J. Weber.   San Diego: San Diego Historical Society, 1977.

Clapp, Louise Amelia Kapp Smith. The Shirley Letters. Ed. Marlene Smith-Baranzini. Berkeley:   Heyday Books, 1998.

Clark, Sterling, B. F. How many miles from St. Jo?: The log of Sterling B. F. Clark, a forty-niner.   San Francisco, privately printed, 1929.

Cole, Cheryl L. “Chinese Exclusion: The Capitalist Perspective of the Sacramento Union, 1850-  1882.” California History Spring 1978: 8-31.

Comstock, David A. “Proper Women at the Mines: Life at Nevada City in the 1850s.” The   Pacific Historian Fall 1984: 65-73.

Conlin, Joseph R. “Eating on the Rush: Organizing meals on the Overland Trail.” California   History Summer 1985: 218-225.

Cook, Sherburne F. The Conflict Between the California Indian and White Civilization. Berkeley:   University of California Press, 1976.

Cornford, Daniel. “"We all live more like Brutes than Humans”: Labor and Capital in the Gold   Rush.”  California History Winter 1998-1999: 78-104.

Crosby, Elisha Oscar. Memoirs of Elisha Oscar Crosby. Ed. Charles Albro Barker. San Marino:   Huntington Library Publications, 1945.

Davis, Stephen Chapin. California Gold Rush Merchant: The Journal of Stephen Chapin Davis.   Ed. Benjamin B. Richards. San Marino: Huntington Library Publications, 1956.

Decker, Peter. The Diaries of Peter Decker. Ed.  Helen S. Griffen. Georgetown: Talisman Press,   1966.

Delano, Alonzo. Across the Plains and Among the Diggings. New York: Wilson-Erikson, Inc.,   1936.

Delgado, James P. “Gold Rush Jail: The Prison Ship Euphemia.” California History Summer   1981: 134-141.

Delgado, James P. “The Humblest Cottage can in a Short Time Afford... Pure and Sparkling   Water: Early Efforts to Solve Gold Rush San Francisco’s Water Shortage.” The Pacific   Historian Fall 1982: 26-39.

Delgado, James P. To California By Sea: a maritime history of the California gold rush.    Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990.

Deverell, William F. and Anne F. Hyde, eds. The West in the History of the Nation, vol. 1.    Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000.

De Graef, Lawrence, Kevin Mulroy and Quintard Talyor, eds. Seeking El Dorado: African   Americans in California. Los Angeles: Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 2001.

Dierbeg, Etienne.  A French Journalist In the Gold Rush: the Letters of Etienne Dierbeg. Ed. A. P.  Nasatir. Georgetown: Talisman Press, 1964.

Dillon, Richard. Fool’s Gold: The Decline and Fall of Captain John Sutter. New York: Coward-  McCann, Inc., 1967.

Dillon, Richard H. J Ross Browne: Confidential Agent in Old California. Norman: University of   Oklahoma Press, 1965.

Dilsaver, Larry M. “After the Gold Rush.” Geographical Review January 1985: 1-18.

Doble, John. Journal and Letters from the Mines. Ed. Charles L. Camp. Denver: The Old West   Publishing Company, 1962.

Doten, Alfred. The Journals of Alfred Doten, vol.1. Ed. Walter van Tilburg Clark. Reno:    University of Nevada Press, 1973.

Dunbar, Edward Ely. The Romance of the Age: or, the discovery of gold in California. New York:  Appleton and Company, 1867.

Durham, Walter T. Volunteer Forty-Niners: Tennesseans and the California Gold Rush.    Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1997.

Dutka, Barry L. “New York Discovers Gold in California: How the press fanned the flames of   gold mania.” California History Fall 1984: 313-319.

“Dying miner’s farewell.” American History September/October 1994: 54-55.

Eales, Anne Bruner. “Paoli and Placerville: Correspondence of a Hoosier in the Gold Rush.”    Indiana Magazine of History Spring 1999: 14-30.

Eccleston, Robert. The Mariposa Indian War 1850-1851: Diaries of Robert Eccleston. Ed.   Gregory Crampton. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1957.

Egan, Ferol. The El Dorado Trail: The Story of the Gold Rush Routes Across Mexico. New York:   McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970.

Eifler, Mark A. “Taming the Wilderness Within: Order and Opportunity in Gold Rush    Sacramento, 1849-1850.” California History Winter 2000/2001: 192-207.

Ellison, William Henry. A Self-governing Dominion: California, 1849-1860. Berkeley: University  of California Press, 1950.

Ethington, Philip J. The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco.   Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Evans, George W.B. Mexican Gold Trail: The Journal of a Forty Niner. San Marino: The    Huntington Library, 1945.

Fender, Stephen. Plotting the Golden West: American Literature and the rhetoric of the California  Trail. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Ferris, Robert G., ed. Prospector, Cowhand, and Sodbuster: Historic Places associated with the   mining, ranching, and farming frontiers in the Trans Mississippi West, v. 11. Washington:  United States Department of the Interior National Park Service, 1967.

Fisher, Vardis and Opal Laural Holmes. Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American   West. Caldwell: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1968.

Forman, Grant. Marcy and the Gold Seekers. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1939.

Franklin, Burt. The Theatre of the Gold Rush Decade in San Francisco. New York: Lenox Hill,    1970.

Gardener, Howard Calhoun. In pursuit of the golden dream: reminiscences of San Francisco and   the Northern and Southern Mines, 1849-1857. Ed. Dale L. Morgan. Stoughton: Western   Hemisphere, 1970.

Gendzel, Glen. “Pioneers and Padres: Competing Mythologies in Northern and Southern    California, 1850-1930.” Western Historical Quarterly Spring 2001: 55-79.

Giacobbi, Steve. Chile and her Argonauts in the Gold Rush 1848-1856. San Jose: San Jose State   College, 1967.

“Gold Country.” American Heritage May/June 1989: 30-32.

Goodman John B. “The 1849 California Gold Rush Fleet: The Abby.” Southern California   Quarterly Summer 1985: 197-206.

Goodman John B. “The 1849 California Gold Rush Fleet: The Ship Harriet Rockwell.”  Southern   California Quarterly Fall 1985: 311-320.

Goodman John B. “The 1849 California Gold Rush Fleet: The Magnolia.” Southern    California Quarterly Spring 1985: 71-87.

Goodman John B. “The 1849 California Gold Rush Fleet: The Packet Robert Browne.”  Southern  California Quarterly Winter 1985: 447-463.

Goodman, David Michael. A Western Panorama 1849-1875 J. Ross Browne. Glendale: The   Arthur H. Clark Company, 1966.

Gordon, Mary McDougall. “’This Italy and Garden Spot of All-America’: A Forty-Niner’s   Letters from Santa Clara Valley in 1851.” The Pacific Historian Spring 1985: 5-16.

Green, Robert B. On the Arkansas Route to California in 1849: The Journal of Robert B. Green   of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Ed. J Orin Oliphant. Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press,   1955.

Greenleaf, Benjamin. The California Almanac for 1849. San Marino: Friends of the Huntington   Library, 1942.

Greever, William S. The Bonanza West: The Story of the Western Mining Rushes, 1848-1900.   Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963.

Griffith, Barbara J. “All the lovely Sisterhood: The ladies of the theater in the California Gold   Rush.” Journal of the West Winter 1998: 7-10.

Groh, George. “Doctors of the Frontier.” American Heritage April 1963: 10-11, 87-91.

Groh, George R. Gold Fever: Being a True Account, Both Horrifying and Hilarious, of the Art of   Healing (so-called) During the California Gold Rush. New York: William Morrow &   Company, Inc., 1966.

Gudde, Erwin G. California Gold Camps. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.

Gutiérrez, David G. Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the   Politics of Ethnicity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Gutiérrez, Ramón A. and Richard J. Orsi, eds. Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush.   Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Hafen, Le Roy Reuben, ed. Journals of Forty-Niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles. The Far West   and the Rockies Historical Series 1820-1875, v. 2.  Glendale: A. H. Clark Co. 1954.

Haggerty, Timothy J. “The San Francisco Gentleman: Etiquette and Society, 1849-1879.”   California History Summer 1986: 96-103.

Haiman, Miecislaus. Polish Pioneers of California. Chicago: Polish Roman Catholic Union of   America, 1940.

Hamilton, Gary G. “The Structural Sources of Adventurism: The Case of the California Gold   Rush.” American Journal of Sociology May 1978: 1466-1490.

Hannon, Jessie Gould. The Boston-Newton Company Venture: From Massachusetts to California  in 1849. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1969.

Harlow, Neal. California Conquered: War and Peace on the Pacific: 1846-1850. Berkeley:   University of California Press, 1982.

Harte, Bret. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings. New York: Penguin Books, 2001.

Haskins, Charles Warren. The Argonauts of California: Being the reminiscences of scenes and   incidents that occurred in California in early mining days; by a pioneer. New York: Fords,  Howard and Hulbert, 1890.

Heiskell, Hugh Brown. A Forty-Niner from Tennessee: The Diary of Hugh Brown Heiskell. Ed.   Edward Stell. Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1998.

Heizer, Robert F., ed. The Destruction of California Indians. Santa Barbara: Peregrine Smith, Inc.,  1974.

Hill, Winifred Storrs. Tarnished Gold: Prejudice During the California Gold Rush. San Francisco:  International Scholars Publications, 1996.

Hing, Bill Ong. Making and Remaking Asian America Through Immigration Policy 1850-1990.   Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.

Holden, William. “The rise and fall of ‘captain’ John Sutter.” American History January/February  1998: 31-37.

Holdredge, Helen. The Woman in Black: The Life of Lola Montez. New York: G. P. Putnam’s   Sons, 1955.

Holliday, J.S. “Reverberations of the California Gold Rush.” California History Spring 1998: 4-  15.

Holliday, J.S. Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California. Berkeley: University of  California Press, 1999.

Holliday, J. S. The World Rushed In. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981.

Hollon, Eugene W. Frontier Violence: Another Look. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Houston, Alen Fraser. “Cadwalder Ringgold, U.S. Navy: Gold Rush Surveyor of San Francisco   Bay and Waters to Sacramento, 1849-1850.” California History Winter: 208-221.

Howard, Clara E., pub. Three Pioneer California Gold Rush Songs. Menlo Park: Howard, 1948.

Howe, Octavius T. Argonauts of ‘49: History and Adventures of the emigrant companies from   Massachusetts, 1849-1850. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1923.

Hulbert, Archer Butler. Forty-Niners: The Chronicle of the California Trail. Boston: Little,   Brown, and Company, 1931.

Hundley, Norris. The Great Thirst: Californians and Water, A History. Berkeley: University of   California Press, 2001.

Hurtado, Albert L. Intimate Frontiers: Sex Gender and Culture in Old California.  Albuquerque:   University of New Mexico Press, 1999.

Hurtado, Albert L. “Sex, Gender, Culture, and a Great Event: The California Gold Rush.” Pacific   Historical Review February 1999: 1-19.

Hutchings, James Mason. Seeking the Elephant, 1849: James Mason Hutchings’ Journal of his   overland Trek to California. Ed. Shirley Sargent. Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark    Company, 1980.

Isenberg, Andrew C. “The California Gold Rush, the West, and the Nation.” Reviews in    American History Spring 2001: 62-71.

Jackson, Alfred T. The Diary of a Forty Niner. Ed. Chauncy L. Canfield. New York: Turtle Point  Press, 1992.

Jackson, Joseph Henry. Anybody’s Gold: The Story of California’s Mining Towns. New York: D.  Appleton-Century Company, 1941.

Jackson, Joseph Henry, ed. Gold Rush Album. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1949.

James, L. Allen. “Sustained Storage and Transport of Hydraulic Gold Mining Sediment in the   Bear River, California.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers Vol. 79, No.   4: 570-572.

Jiobu, Robert M. Ethnicity and Assimilation. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.

Johnson, David A. “Vigilance and the Law: The Moral Authority of Popular Justice in the Far   West.” American Quarterly Winter 1981: 558-586.

Johnson, David Alan. Founding the Far West: California, Oregon, and Nevada, 1840-1890.   Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

Johnson, Drew Heath and Marcia Eymann, eds. Silver and Gold: Cased Images of the California  Gold Rush. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1998.

Johnson, Susan Lee. Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush. New York:   W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

Johnson, W. G. Overland to California: A member of the wagon train first to enter California... in  the memorable year of 1849. Oakland: Biobooks, 1948.

Jones, Mary Ellen. Daily Life on the 19th Century American Frontier. Westport: Greenwood   Press, 1998.

Jones, S. J. “The Gold Country of the Sierra Nevada in California.” Transactions and Papers   (Institute of British Geographers) 1949: 115-139.

Katz, William Loren. The Black West. Seattle: Open Hand Publishing Inc., 1987.

Kelley, Robert L. Gold vs. Grain: The Mining Debris Controversy in California’s Sacramento   Valley. Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1959.

Kelly, William. A Stroll Through the Diggings of California. Oakland: Biobooks, 1950.

Kirker, Harold. California’s Architectural Frontier: Style and Tradition on the Nineteenth    Century. Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., 1986.

Koon, Helene Wickham. How Shakespeare Won the West: Players and Performances in    America’s Gold Rush, 1849-1865. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1989.

Kowalewski, Michael, ed. Gold Rush: A Literary Exploration. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1997.

Krentz, Christopher, ed. “Edmund Booth” in A Mighty Change: An Anthology of Deaf American   Writing 1816-1864. Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet University Press, 2000.

Lan Cassel, Susie, ed. Chinese in America: A History from Gold Mountain to the New Millennium.  Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press, 2002.

Langworthy, Franklin. Scenery of the Plains, Mountains, and Mines. Ed. Paul C. Phillips.    Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1932.

Lapp, Rudolph M. Blacks in Gold Rush California. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

Lapp, Rudolph M. “The Negro in Gold Rush California.” The Journal of Negro History April   1964: 81-98.

Larking, Thomas Oliver. First and Last Consul: Thomas Oliver Larkin and the Americanization   of California. Ed. John A. Hawgood. San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1962.

Lee, Hector H. “The Reverberant Joaquín Murieta in California Legendry.” The Pacific Historian  Fall 1981: 38-47.

Leshy, John D. The Mining Law: A Study in Perpetual Motion. Washington: Resources for the   Future, 1987.

Levy, J. “Forgotten Forty Niners.” American History Illustrated January February 1992: 38-50.

Levy, Joann. They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush. Hamden: Archon   Books, 1990.

Lewis, Oscar. San Francisco: Mission to Metropolis. Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1966.

Lewis, Robert. “Photographing the Gold Rush.” History Today March 2002: 11-17.

Limbaugh, Ronald H. “Making old tools work better: Pragmatic adaptation and innovation in   Gold-Rush Technology.”  California History Winter 1998-1999: 24-51.

Limerick, Patricia Nelson. “The Gold Rush and the Shaping of the American West.” California   History Spring 1998: 30-41.

Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.   New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1987.

Littlefield, Douglas R. “Water rights during the California Gold Rush: Conflicts of Economic   points of view.” Western Historical Quarterly Winter 1983: 415-434.

Lockwood, Charles. “Tourists in Gold Rush San Francisco.” California History Winter    1980/1981: 314-333.

Lopez, Carlos U. Chilenos in California: A Study of the 1850, 1852 and 1860 Censuses. 1973.

Lord, Robert Waterson. “Five years in California in Its Early Days.” The New England Quarterly  June 1938: 287-307.

Lotchin, Roger W. San Francisco 1846-1856: From Hamlet to City. New York: Oxford    University Press, 1974.

Low, Garrett W. Gold Rush by Sea. Ed. Kenneth Haney. Philadelphia: University of    Pennsylvania Press, 1941.

Lowe, John. “Joaquin Murieta, Mexican History, and Popular Myths of Freedom.” Journal of   Popular Culture Fall 2001: 25-40.

Lydor, Sandy. Chinese Gold: The Chinese in the Monterey Bay Region. Capitola: Capitola Book   Company, 1985.

MacGregor, Greg. “Traces of the Pioneers: Photographing the Overland Trail.” California   History Winter 1991/1992: 338-351.

MacMinn, George R. The Theater of the Golden Era in California. Cadwell: The Caxton Printers,  Ltd., 1941.

Madsen, Brigham D. Gold Rush Sojourners in Great Salt Lake City 1849 and 1850. Salt Lake   City: University of Utah Press, 1983.

Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F. “Forty-Niner Faith.” Christian History 2000: 25-27.

Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F. Religion and Society in Frontier California. New Haven: Yale University  Press, 1994.

Mann, Ralph. “The Americanization of Arcadia: Images of Hispanic and Gold Rush California.”    American Studies Spring 1978: 5-19.

Margo, Elisabeth. Taming the Forty-Niner. New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1955.

Martin, George Whitney. Verdi at the Golden Gate: Opera and San Francisco in the Gold Rush   Years. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Mathes, Valerie Sherer. “The Death of John Sutter as seen Through the Letters of Annie and   John Bidwell.” Pacific Historian Fall 1982: 40-52.

McIlhany, Edward Washington. Recollections of a ‘49er: a quaint and thrilling narrative of a trip  across the plains, and life in the California gold fields during the stirring days following   the discovery of gold in the far west.  Kansas City: Hailman Printing Co., 1908.

Mckinstry, Byron N. The California Gold Rush Overland Diary of Byron N. Mckinstry 1850-  1852. Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1975.

McLeod, Alexander. Pigtails and Gold Dust. Caldwell: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1948.

Megquier, Mary Jane. Apron Full of Gold. Ed. Robert Glass Cleland. San Marino: Huntington   Library Publications, 1949.

Mei, June. “Socioeconomic Origins of Emigration: Guangdong to California, 1850-1882.” Modern  China October 1979: 463-501.

Meyer, Carl. Bound for Sacramento. Trans. Ruth Frey Axe. Claremont: Saunders Studio Press,   1938.

Meyer, Carl. Prospectus to form a Society for Emigration to California. Trans. Ruth Frey Axe.   Claremont: Saunders Studio Press, 1938.

Mitchell, John G. “The Way West.” National Geographic September 2000: 34-63.

Monaghan, Jay. Australians and the Gold Rush: California and Down Under, 1849-1854.   Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.

Monaghan, Jay. Chile, Peru, and he California Gold Rush of 1849. Berkeley: University of   California Press, 1973.

Monroy, Douglas. Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier   California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

Moreno, Deborah. “’Here the Society is United’: ‘Respectable’ Anglos  and Intercultural    Marriage in Pre-Gold Rush California.” California History Spring 2001: 2-17.

Morrell, W. P. The Gold Rushes. Chester Springs: Dufour Editions, Inc., 1968.

Moynihan, Ruth B., Susan Armitage, and Christiane Fischer, eds. So Much to be Done: Women   Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,   1998.

Müller, J. California, Land of Gold or Stay at Home and Work Hard. Trans. Anthony Knight.   San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1971.

Myres, Sandra L., ed. Ho for California!: Women’s Overland Diaries from the Huntington   Library. San Marino: The Huntington Library. 1980.

Nash, Gerald D. “A Veritable Revolution: The Global Economic Significance o the California   Gold Rush.” California History Winter 1998-1999: 276-292.

Navarro, Ramón Gil. The Gold Rush Diary of Ramón Gil Navarro. Ed. and Trans. María Del   Carmen Ferreyra and David S. Reher. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

O’Neil, Dan. “From Forecastle to Mother Lode: The U.S. Navy in the Gold Fields.” Southern   California Quarterly Spring 1989: 69-88.

Okihiro, Gary Y. The Columbia Guide to Asian American History. New York: Columbia    University Press, 2001.

Osbun, Albert G. To California and the Southern Seas: The Diary of Albert G. Osbun 1849-  1851. San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1966.

Owens, Kenneth N., ed. John Sutter and a Wider West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,   1994.

The Pacific Historian. Stockton: University of the Pacific.

Paddison, Joshua, ed. A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold   Rush. Bekeley: Heyday Books, 1999.

Palmer, Francis W. “Gold Rush Language.” American Speech May 1968: 83-114.

Palmer, Norman D. “Maine Man in California: A record of the Gold Rush Era.” The New    England Quarterly June 1947: 252-259.

Pancoast, Charles Edward. A Quaker Forty-Niner: The Adventures of Charles Edward Pancoast   on the American Frontier. Ed. Anna Paschall Hannum. Philadelphia: University of   Pennsylvania Press, 1930.

Parke, Charles Ross. Dreams to Dust: A Diary of the California Gold Rush, 1849-1850. Ed.   James E. Davis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.

Patron, A. G. “Gold Rush Wreck.”  Archaeology Nov/Dec 2001: 11.

Paz, Irenro. Life and Adventures of the Celebrated Bandit Joaquin Murrieta. Trans. Francis P.   Belle. Houston: Arte Público Press, 2001.

Perkins, Elisha Douglass. Gold Rush Diary: Being the Journal of Elisha Douglass Perkins on the   Overland Trial in the Spring and Summer of 1849. Ed. Thomas D. Clark. Lexington:   University of Kentucky Press, 1967.

Peterson, Richard H. “Anti-Mexican Nativism in California, 1848-1853: A study of cultural   conflict.” Southern California Quarterly Winter 1980: 309-327.

Peterson, Richard H. The Bonanza Kings: The Social Origins and Business Behavior of Western   Mining Entrepreneurs, 1870-1900. Lincoln. University of Nebraska Press, 1977.

Peterson, Richard H. Bonanza Rich: Life Styles of the Western Mining Entrepreneurs. Moscow:   University of Idaho Press, 1991.

Pfieffer, Ida. A Lady’s Visit to California 1853. Oakland: Biobooks, 1950.

Phillips, George Harwood. Indians and Indian Agents: The Origins of the Reservation System in   California, 1849-1852. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.

Pitt, Leonard. The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking    Californians, 1846-1890. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.

Pomfret, John E., ed. California Gold Rush Voyages. San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1954.

Pomeroy, Earl. The Pacific Slope: A History of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, and  Nevada. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.

Prago, Albert. Strangers in Their Own Land: A history of Mexican-Americans. New York: Four   Winds Press, 1973.

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