The World Rushed In is a pioneering achievement in historical writing, at once a personal, intimate story of one man's search for wealth and the definitive account of the California gold rush. Buildi
Married couple Jack and Ali Gardiner move to a self-sufficient commune in the English Fens, desperate for fresh start. The local village is known for the witches who once resided there, and Rosalind H
In this vivid account of the birth of modern California, J.S. Holliday frames the gold rush years within the larger story of the state's transformation from the quietude of a Mexican hinterland in the
Sweeping in scope, as revealing of an era as it is of a company, Stagecoach is the epic story of Wells Fargo and the American West.The trail of Wells Fargo runs through nearly every imaginable landsca
When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, ?It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no on
