The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream Candlelight unlike any capital in Europe

unlike any capital in Europe at that time

descriptions of specific habitats and biozones

including eight pages of color paintings

Impressive in its scholarship and overflowing with life

entrepreneur Leland Stanford

The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream Candlelight unlike any capital in EuropeThe California Gold Rush inspired a new American dreamthe dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck. The discovery of gold on the American River in 1848 triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. It drew fortune seekers from the ends of the earth, accelerated Americas imperial expansion, and exacerbated the tensions that exploded in the Civil War. H. W. Brands tells his epic story from multiple