Pictures of Gold Rush California (The Lakeside Classics, Vol. 47)

xlv, 383 pp. Maroon cloth boards. CONTENTS: Historical Introduction; To California via Cape Horn; To California via Panama; To California via Mexico; California in 1848; San Francisco in 1849; The News Comes to Monterey; Three Weeks in a Mining Camp; How the Gold was Mined; Chinese, Mexicans and Indians; Amusements of the Miners; Argonaut Agreements and Mining Laws; Appendix; Index.