The World Rushed In. The California Gold Rush Experience

J. S. HOLLIDAY

Publication: Simon and Schuster, 1981, New York

First edition. 8vo. Inked gift inscription by the author on the publisher's logo page, signed and dated in the year of publication by the author. Two-tone quarter cloth and boards, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, Maps on front and rear endpapers, 559 pp., acknowledgments, author's note, prologue, illustrated, plates, facsimiles, maps, epilogue, appendix, notes, sources, index. Public Service Television (PBS) has called this book "the definitive book on the California Gold Rush." W. H. Hutchinson says "I know of nothing that so vividly and humanly depicts the hopes and sorrows, the steadfast courage and dogged endurance, both on the trail, in the mines and at home, as does this work .... It is the result of prolonged and prodigious scholarly endeavor." Fine in price-clipped dust jacket.