Drawing upon a wide variety of documentary sources--letters and diaries, as well as contemporary newspaper and magazine reports--the author shows us gold fever running like fire through the cities of the East. Immediate, rich in detail, here is history at its most irresistible, heroic, poignant, and terrible by turns. Gold Dust takes us straight to the living core of an American epic.
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Drawing upon a wide variety of documentary sources--letters and diaries, as well as contemporary newspaper and magazine reports--the author shows us gold fever running like fire through the cities of the East. Immediate, rich in detail, here is history at its most irresistible, heroic, poignant, and terrible by turns. Gold Dust takes us straight to the living core of an American epic.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 361 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. 1980 edition with DJ. Book is LIKE NEW with small ink stamp bottom page ends. DJ shows light wear for age
