The rush California gold, the Civil War, and the making of the modern world
"National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how California's Gold Rush forged the modern United States-and lit the long fuse to civil war In January 1848, a carpenter spotted flecks of gold in a shallow stream...
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Viking,
[2026]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue. California
- Pandemonium on a frolic
- The desert of cold selfishness
- The blank sheet of paper
- Floundering like porpoises at low tide
- A receipt signed by the Lord
- The hunting ground
- The eternal shadow
- The god of destruction
- None were faster
- A vast and ominous despotism
- Like the blade of an executioner
- Cast into the fire
- Nervous tide-lines of tremendous power
- Moving mountains
- Something must be done to hasten it
- Palo Alto
- Epilogue. Tailings.
