Gold Rush Album to California in '49 de Joseph Henry Jackson - 1949-01-01

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949-01-01. Hardcover. Good. . Dust jacket is worn with tears. Edges shows shelf wear and minor tanning. Dust jacket is covered in brodart plastic. Pages shows minor tanning.

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. cloth, dust jacket. California. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 239 pages. First edition. Near fine in near fine jacket. Maps to endpapers. A text-and-picture story marking three California centennials --- the Discovery of gold in 1848, the Rush of 1849, and, Statehood in 1850. It is the story of the American-in-search-of-his-fortune. Many envisioned fields of gold waiting to be picked up just for the trouble of bending over, few planned to remain. There are only estimates of how many came in those fews years. What we know is the mining was hard, thousands did stay on, and out of a n empty land, an agricultural and industrial empire rose. Still known as the Golden State, this is an narrative of how the earliest of the millions that now populate the state got here.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.