Del Norte Public Library

A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the Great Unknown and The Forger's Spell. In the spring of 1848, rumors began to spread that gold had been discovered in a remote spot in the Sacramento Valley. A year later, newspaper headlines declared "Gold Fever!" as hundreds of thousands of men and women borrowed money, quit their jobs, and allowed themselves- for the first time ever-to imagine a future of ease and splendor....

A young Chinese boy nicknamed Runt records his experiences in a journal as he travels from southern China to California in 1852 to join his uncle during the Gold Rush.

Describes the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, the forty-niners, the gold rush years. Includes bibliographical references and index, glossary, time line, illustrated

Depicts frontier life in California during the mid-nineteenth-century Gold Rush, and provides a brief history of the state.