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Record Nr.

UNINA9911116969903321

Autore

Monaghan Jay

Titolo

Australians and the Gold Rush / / Jay Monaghan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2020]

©1966

ISBN

9780520323568

0520323564

Edizione

[Reprint 2020]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (423 p.) : 1 frontisp

Disciplina

994.03

Soggetti

NON-CLASSIFIABLE

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Where Is California? -- 2. Be First in San Francisco! -- 3. Tasmania Hears about the Rush -- 4. Australia's New England Starts for the Diggings -- 5. Cruise of the Elizabeth Archer -- 6. Off to the Mother Lode -- 7. Gold Rush Crescendo: A Good Outlet for Expirees -- 8. Keep Women Out of California! -- 9. Three Musketeers in California's Outback, 1850 -- 10. Hargraves Returns to a Different Australia -- 11. Hargraves Crosses the Divide -- 12. Gold Discovery in Australia! -- 13. Australians Learn about California Lynchings -- 14. The Greatest Goldfield of Them All -- 15. The Irish Patriots Escape -- 16. Are Californians Dangerous Revolutionists? -- 17. Rebels and Redcoats -- 18. The Shot Not Heard Round the World -- Notes -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.