This book focuses on the experience of the Californian Gold Rush of
1849-1850, not in terms of what happened (a subject much covered by
historians) but in terms of how people of various levels of
sophistication wrote about it. Drawing on a variety of sources -
diaries, journals, letters, and contemporary journalism - Dr Fender
explores how both amateur and professional writers attempted to
come to terms with the physical wilderness of the transcontinental
landscape and the social wilderness of early California. Dr Fender
has produced an intriguing and highly readable book, which should
prove fascinating not only to a wide range of students in the field
of American studies but also to non-specialists who are interested
in nineteenth-century American literary and cultural history.
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