Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California, edited by Kevin Starr and Richard J. OrsiRooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California, edited by Kevin Starr and Richard J. Orsi. California History Sesquicentennial series. University of California Press in association with the California Historical Society, 2000. x, 364 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth), $24.95 U.S. (paper).

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.37.3.581 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 581-583

Author(s):

David R. Farrell

Keyword(s):

Gold Rush ◽

University Of California ◽

California History ◽

Historical Society

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Papers of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851. III. Minutes and Miscellaneous Papers; Financial Accounts and Vouchers. Edited by Mary Floyd Williams. [Publications of the Academy of Pacific Goast History, vol. IV] (Berkeley: University of California Press. 1919. Pp. xvi, 906.) and History of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851: a Study of Social Control on the California Frontier in the Days of the Gold Rush. By Mary Floyd Williams, Ph.D. [University of California Publications in History, vol. XII.] (Berkeley: University of California Press. 1921. Pp. xii, 543. $5.00.)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/28.1.138 ◽

1922 ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Control ◽

San Francisco ◽

Gold Rush ◽

University Of California ◽

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UNITED STATES AND CANADA Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California. Edited by Kevin Starr and Richard J. Orsi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. x, 364. $60.00, cloth; $24.95, paper.

The Journal of Economic History ◽

10.1017/s0022050701338147 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 61 (2) ◽

pp. 553-555 ◽

Author(s):

James Gerber

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Gold Rush ◽

University Of California

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Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California. By J. S. Holliday. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 355. $55.00, cloth; $29.95, paper. - A Goldern State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush Califorina. Edited by James J. Rawls and Richard J. Orsi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 313. $50.00, cloth; $24.95, paper.

The Journal of Economic History ◽

10.1017/s0022050700024372 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 59 (4) ◽

pp. 1114-1115

Author(s):

David Gerard

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Gold Rush ◽

University Of California

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Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation. By Malcolm J. Rohrbough. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xv, 353. $29.95, cloth.

The Journal of Economic History ◽

10.1017/s002205070002101x ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 58 (2) ◽

pp. 613-614

Author(s):

Ron Limbaugh

Keyword(s):

Gold Rush ◽

University Of California ◽

American Nation

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Contested Eden: California Before the Gold Rush. Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi, eds. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. 396. Illustrations. Notes. Index. $60.00.)

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.2307/1008065 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 55 (2) ◽

pp. 333-335

Author(s):

Amy Turner Bushnell

Keyword(s):

Gold Rush ◽

University Of California

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Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation, by Malcolm J. Rohrbough and, A Mine of Her Own: Women Prospectors in the American West 1850-1950, by Sally ZanjaniDays of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation, by Malcolm J. Rohrbough. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1997. xv, 353 pp. $29.95 U.S.A Mine of Her Own: Women Prospectors in the American West 1850-1950, by Sally Zanjani. Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1997. xii, 375 pp. $32.50 U.S.

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.32.3.486 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 486-488

Author(s):

Charlene Porsild

Keyword(s):

American West ◽

Gold Rush ◽

University Of California ◽

American Nation

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Carpetbaggers Join the Rush for California Land

California History ◽

10.1525/ch.2015.92.2.42 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 92 (2) ◽

pp. 42-65

Author(s):

Paul W. Gates

Keyword(s):

Gold Rush ◽

Washington Dc ◽

California History

During and after the Gold Rush, Yankee speculators brokered some of the most spectacular land deals in California history. This article follows the pecuniary interests of these speculators on their way to the halls of government in California and Washington, DC.

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A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California. Edited byJames J. Rawls and Richard J. Orsi. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 335 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $24.95. ISBN: cloth 0-520-21770-5; paper 0-520-21771-3.

The Business History Review ◽

10.2307/3116485 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 74 (4) ◽

pp. 728-731

Author(s):

William Deverell

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Gold Rush ◽

University Of California

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John F. Burns and Richard J. Orsi, editors. Taming the Elephant: Politics, Government, and Law in Pioneer California. Assisted by Marlene Smith-Baranzini, Joshua Paddison, and Teena Stern. (California History Sesquicentennial Series, number 4.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/109.4.1241 ◽

2004 ◽

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

University Of California ◽

California History

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George Martin. Verdi at the Golden Gate: Opera and San Francisco in the Gold Rush Years. Foreword by Lotfi Mansouri. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1993. Pp. xxii, 321. $30.00

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/100.1.235 ◽

1995 ◽

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

San Francisco ◽

Gold Rush ◽

University Of California ◽

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