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The Wells Fargo Book of the Gold Rush by Margaret Rau; illustrations from the Wells Fargo archives is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Wells Fargo Book of the Gold Rush about?

<p>Margaret Rau takes young readers on a thrilling journey through the California gold rush, from its dawning moment in 1848 in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada through the riotous days of its height, to the 1855 recession that signaled the end of an incredible era in American history. This account is illustrated with prints and photographs of the people, places, and events of the gold rush from the Wells Fargo Archives.</p><p>Rau brings alive the prospectors' fervor as they left jobs and families to follow the lure of gold, arriving in surges by land and sea. In the ramshackle mining towns that sprung up across the foothills, some set up makeshift shops and saloons to support the other prospectors. But most followed their dreams to the diggings, spending backbreaking days searching the mountain streams for the fabled glimmer of gold.</p><p>After long days panning for fortune, the forty-niners spent their nights carousing in the dirty, raucous boomtowns. But as illness, crime, and homesickness spread, they began longing for the comforts of home, and eventually some of their families did arrive, gradually tempering their unruly habits with new regimes and entertainment.</p><p>But

Author

Margaret Rau; illustrations from the Wells Fargo archives

Publisher

New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780689830198

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Humanities