Title Gold dust / Donald Dale Jackson.

Imprint

New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1980.

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction	979.4 J133	Check Shelf
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	979.404 J	Check Shelf

Edition	1st ed.
Description	x, 361 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-345) and index.
Contents	The ways West -- The gold country -- A few of the forty-niners -- Sunrise in a bottle -- The gilded summer -- Ho for California! -- Oh! Susanna -- The Argosy -- The easy way -- Reveille on the rivers -- The course of empire -- The unyielding land -- Magic lantern country -- Fire and ice -- Muster of strangers -- Twilight in Eden -- The morning after.
Summary	"The saga of the forty-niners--their adventures and ordeals, their courage and greed, their ingenuities, delusions, bonanzas and catastrophies--in California and on the way there"--Jacket subtitle.
Subject	California -- Gold discoveries.
	Voyages to the Pacific coast.
	California -- History -- 1846-1850.
	Frontier and pioneer life -- California.
	Frontier and pioneer life. (OCoLC)fst00935370
	Gold mines and mining. (OCoLC)fst00944469
	Voyages to the Pacific coast. (OCoLC)fst01169329
	California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
	Frontier and pioneer life -- California.
	Overland journeys to the Pacific (U.S.)
	California -- Gold discoveries.
	California -- History.
Chronological Term	1846-1850
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Online version: Jackson, Donald Dale, 1935- Gold dust. 1st ed. New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1980 (OCoLC)987958393
ISBN	0394503201
	9780394503202

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