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The Rush: America's Fevered Quest for Fortune, 1848-1853
Edward Dolnick
Little, Brown & Company
August 2014
On Sale: August 12, 2014
ISBN: 0316175684
EAN: 9780316175685
Hardcover
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A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning
author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell. In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had
been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A
year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as
hundreds of thousands of men and women borrowed money, quit
their jobs, and allowed themselves- for the first time
ever-to imagine a future of ease and splendor. In THE RUSH,
Edward Dolnick brilliantly recounts their treacherous
westward journeys by wagon and on foot, and takes us to the
frenzied gold fields and the rowdy cities that sprang from
nothing to jam-packed chaos. With an enthralling cast of
characters and scenes of unimaginable wealth and desperate
ruin, THE RUSH is a fascinating-and rollicking-account of
the greatest treasure hunt the world has ever seen.
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