Author: CAUGHEY, JOHN WALTON
Title: Gold Is the Cornerstone
Description: Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1948. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by W. R. Cameron. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light toning to the edges of the endpapers and of the edges of the text block. The dust jacket some edge wear and nicking to the spine ends and corners and noticeable darkening / toning to the spine and edges of the front and rear panels. "A professor at UCLA from 1930-1967, John Caughey was one of the foremost historians of California of his time. His books include Gold is the Cornerstone, California Heritage, and Their Majesties the Mob (about vigilantism). In 1949 he defied the Regents of the University of California by refusing to sign a loyalty oath he considered unconstitutional." "The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. The sudden influx of immigration and gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy, and California became one of the few American states to go directly to statehood, in the Compromise of 1850. The Gold Rush initiated the California Genocide, with 100,000 Native Californians dying between 1848 and 1868. By the time it ended, California had gone from a thinly populated ex-Mexican territory to the home state of the first nominee for the Republican Party.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: Californiana John Walton Caughey Gold Rush Sutter's Fort W. R. Cameron Californiana
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Title: Gold Is the Cornerstone
Description: Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1948. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by W. R. Cameron. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light toning to the edges of the endpapers and of the edges of the text block. The dust jacket some edge wear and nicking to the spine ends and corners and noticeable darkening / toning to the spine and edges of the front and rear panels. "A professor at UCLA from 1930-1967, John Caughey was one of the foremost historians of California of his time. His books include Gold is the Cornerstone, California Heritage, and Their Majesties the Mob (about vigilantism). In 1949 he defied the Regents of the University of California by refusing to sign a loyalty oath he considered unconstitutional." "The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought some 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. The sudden influx of immigration and gold into the money supply reinvigorated the American economy, and California became one of the few American states to go directly to statehood, in the Compromise of 1850. The Gold Rush initiated the California Genocide, with 100,000 Native Californians dying between 1848 and 1868. By the time it ended, California had gone from a thinly populated ex-Mexican territory to the home state of the first nominee for the Republican Party.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: Californiana John Walton Caughey Gold Rush Sutter's Fort W. R. Cameron Californiana
Price: US$ 25.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 33746
- Book number: 33746
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