Dubuque During the California Gold Rush
, by Klein, Robert F.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781609494919 | 1609494911
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/21/2011
In 1849, news from California Produced A Strange Alchemy in the region around Dubuque. Men used to the daily grind of the local lead mines felt a sudden fever for gold half a continent away. It was like a call to war, pulling the young men of the Midwest away to far-distant dimes for an adventure and nightmare they would struggle to explain to those who remained on the homefront. After meticulously combing through the correspondence between the Dubuque Forty-Niners and a home radically altered by their departure, Robert F. Klein examines one of the most fascinating periods of the American story from a fresh perspective. Book jacket.