After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley by Vaught, David
After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley by Vaught, David

After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley

2008 Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association"It is a glorious country,"...
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After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley by Vaught, David

After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley

$118.52
After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley by Vaught, David

After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley

$118.52
Author: David Vaught
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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2008 Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association

"It is a glorious country," exclaimed Stephen J. Field, the future U.S. Supreme Court justice, upon arriving in California in 1849. Field's pronouncement was more than just an expression of exuberance. For an electrifying moment, he and another 100,000 hopeful gold miners found themselves face-to-face with something commensurate to their capacity to dream. Most failed to hit pay dirt in gold. Thereafter, one illustrative group of them struggled to make a living in wheat, livestock, and fruit along Putah Creek in the lower Sacramento Valley. Like Field, they never forgot that first "glorious" moment in California when anything seemed possible.

In After the Gold Rush, David Vaught examines the hard-luck miners-turned-farmers--the Pierces, Greenes, Montgomerys, Careys, and others--who refused to admit a second failure, faced flood and drought, endured monumental disputes and confusion over land policy, and struggled to come to grips with the vagaries of local, national, and world markets.

Their dramatic story exposes the underside of the American dream and the haunting consequences of trying to strike it rich.



Author: David Vaught
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 06/01/2009
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780801892578


Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2009 pg. 105

About the Author

David Vaught is a professor of history at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Cultivating California: Growers, Specialty Crops, and Labor, 1875-1920, also published by Johns Hopkins.




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