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Selected Gold Rush Readings
A bibliography for adult readers.
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The following books are contained in the checkout collection of at least one of the Nevada County Libraries and are listed in the online catalog. A hold may be placed on any title that’s not available at the time of your visit. If you need help, just let us know.
Nevada County Library also has many other Gold Rush titles not listed here. Some of them are only for in-house use.
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NON-FICTION- The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream by H.W. Brands, 2002.
- Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 by Kevin Starr, 1973.
- Blacks in Gold Rush California by Rudolph M. Lapp, 1977.
- Brides of the Gold Rush, 1851 to 1859 by David Comstock, 1987.
- Bury My Bones in America: The Saga of a Chinese Family in California, 1852-1896: From San Francisco to the Sierra Gold Mines by Lani Ah Tye Farkas, 1998.
- California: Its Gold and Its Inhabitants by Sir Henry Vere Huntley, 2003 reprint.
- California: A Study of the American Character: from the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco by Josiah Royce, 2003 reprint.
- The California Gold Country or Highway 49 Revisited: Being an Account of the Life and Times of the People and the Mining Camps of the California Gold Rush by Elliot H. Koeppel, 1996.
- California’s Gold Rush Country: A Guide to the Best of the Mother Lode by Barbara Braasch, 1996.
- Cornish Mining Families of Grass Valley, California by Shirley Ewart, 1989.
- Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Dream by Malcolm J. Rohrbough, 1997.
- Early Mining Days: California Gold Country by Stanley W. Paher, 1996.
- Eldorado: Advenures in the Path of Empire by Bayard Taylor, 2000.
- A Frontier Lady: Recollections of the Gold Rush and Early California by Sarah Royce, 1932.
- From Mud-Flat Cove to Gold to Statehood: California 1840 to 1850 by Irving Stone, 1999.
- Gold Diggers and Camp Followers, 1845-1851 by David Comstock, 1982.
- Gold Rush: A Literary Exploration by Michael Kowalewski, 1997.
- The Jews in the California Gold Rush by Robert E. Levinson, 1994.
- Mary Hallock Foote: Author-Illustrator of the American West by Darlis A. Miller, 2002.
- Miwok Means People: The Life and Fate of the Native Inhabitants of the California Gold Rush by Eugene L. Conrotto, 1973.
- The Mother Lode: A Celebration of California’s Gold Country by Kristin Wrigley, 1999.
- My Checkered Life: Luzena Stanley Wilson in Early California by Fern Henry, 2003.
- Nevada City by Orval Bronson, 2002.
- Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush by Susan Lee Johnson, 2000.
- Roughing It by Mark Twain, 1981 reprint.
- Rush for Riches: California and the Making of California by J.S. Holliday, 1999.
- Sketches of the Gold Country: as it was … in 1938 by Harley M. Leete, 1998.
- They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush by JoAnn Levy, 1990.
- Traveling California’s Gold Rush Country by Leslie A. Kelly, 1997.
- Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West by Mary Hallock Foote, 1972 reprint.
- Walking Tours and Twice-Told Tales of Grass Valley by Robert M. Wyckoff, 1993.
- When Miners Sang: The Grass Valley Carol Choir by Gage McKinney, 2001.
- With Great Hope: Women of the California Gold Rush by JoAnn Chartier, 2000.
- A World Transformed: Firsthand Accounts of California Before the Gold Rush, edited by Joshua Paddison, 1999.
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FICTION- Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, 1971.
- Bret Harte’s Gold Rush by Bret Harte, 1997, contains “The Luck of Roaring Camp,” “Outcasts of Poker Flat,” and others.
- The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain by Mark Twain, 1957, contains “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.”
- The Committee of Vigilance: A Novel of Gold Rush San Francisco by John Byre Cooke, 1994.
- Daughter of Joy: A Novel of Gold Rush California by JoAnn Levy, 1998.
- For California’s Gold: A Novel by JoAnn Levy, 2000.
- Gold: Being the Marvellous History of General John Augustus Sutter by Blaise Cendrars, 1983.
- Golden Destiny by June Wyndham Davies, 1993.
- J.A. Whitford and the Great California Gold Hunt by Frank Roderus, 1990.
- The Led-Horse Claim, a Romance of a Mining Camp by Mary Hallock Foote, 1968 reprint.
- Sierra: A Novel of the California Gold Rush by Richard S. Wheeler 1996.
- Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Biographical Novel by Ruthanne Lum McCunn, 1981.
- Wayfaring Stranger: A Frontier Story by Tim Champlin, 2000.
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