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The El Dorado Trail; the story of the gold rush routes across Mexico.

Book/Text

New York, McGraw-Hill [1970]

1970

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FormatBook/TextCall numberHTY 71-41Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315
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Treasures of the dead, by Ben T. Traywick.

Book/Text

Tombstone, Ariz., Tombstone epitaph, c1967.

1967

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 72-349Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The California Gold Rush diary of a German sailor. Illustrated with pencil sketches by his inseparable partner Carl (Charley) Friderich Christendorff. Edited and with an introd. by W. Turrentine Jackson.

Book/Text

[Berkeley, Calif., Howell-North Books, 1969]

1969

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 72-453Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Hunting for gold.

Book/Text

Palo Alto, Calif., American West Pub. Co. [1971]

1971-1893

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 72-1107Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Foreigners in the California gold rush / by Seville A. Sylva.

Book/Text

[San Francisco : R and E Research Associates, 1972]

1972

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 73-1290Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The gold rush; letters of David Wooster from California to the Adrian, Michigan, Expositor, 1850-1855.

Book/Text

Mount Pleasant, Mich., Cumming Press [1972]

1972

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 73-1926Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Chile, Peru, and the California gold rush of 1849 [by] Jay Monaghan.

Book/Text

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1973.

1973

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 74-1177Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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California, land of gold; or Stay at home and work hard. A short description of California dnd the dangers which threaten the immigrant along with the story of the sad fate of a German immigrant, by J. Müller. [Translated from the German by Anthony Knight]

Book/Text

San Francisco, Book Club of California [1971]

1971

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FormatBook/TextCall number*KP (Book Club) 73-372Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
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The Chilenos in the California Gold Rush.

Book/Text

[San Francisco, R and E Research Associates, 1973]

1973-1963

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIEE (Chileans) 74-1692Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Aurifodina; or, Adventures in the Gold Region. A fantastical '49er novel written by Cantell A. Bigly <G. W. Peck>, with a pref. by James D. Hart and collage illustrations by Bruce Conner.

Book/Text

San Francisco, Book Club of California, 1974.

1974

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FormatBook/TextCall number*KP (Book Club) 74-422Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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The forty-niners. By the editors of Time-Life Books, with text by William Weber Johnson.

Book/Text

New York [1974]

1974

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 75-1397Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The American: river of El Dorado. Illustrated by Jerry Helmrich.

Book/Text

New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1974]

1974

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 75-1655Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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For friends at home : a Scottish emigrant's letters from Canada, California, and the Cariboo, 1844-1864 / edited by Richard Arthur Preston.

Book/Text

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1974.

1974

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FormatBook/TextCall numberHWY 75-2383Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Echoes of the past.

Book/Text

New York, Arno Press, 1973.

1973-1914

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 75-2601Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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William Tecumseh Sherman: gold rush banker, by Dwight L. Clarke.

Book/Text

San Francisco, California Historical Society, 1969.

1969

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIAA (California Historical Society. Special publications) no. 45Item locationOffsite
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Gold rush steamers of the Pacific / Ernest A. Wiltsee.

Book/Text

Lawrence, Mass. : Quarterman Publications, c1976.

1976-1938

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 76-2252Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The pioneer miner and the pack mule express / Ernest A. Wiltsee.

Book/Text

Lawrence, Mass. : Quarterman Publications, [1976] c1931.

1976-1931

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 76-2247Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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We were 49ers! : Chilean accounts of the California Gold Rush / translated and edited by Edwin A. Beilharz and Carlos U. López.

Book/Text

Pasadena, Calif. : Ward Ritchie Press, c1976.

1976

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 76-2494Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Eldorado, or, Adventures in the path of empire: comprising a voyage to California, via Panama; life in San Francisco and Monterey; pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel. With illus. by the author.

Book/Text

New York, G. P. Putnam, 1850.

1850

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FormatBook/TextCall numberArents S 1134Item locationSchwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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Gold and silver colossus : William Morris Stewart and his southern bride / Ruth Hermann.

Book/Text

Sparks, Nev. : Dave's Print. & Pub., c1975.

1975

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFD 76-819Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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California gold days.

Book/Text

Garden City, N. y., Doubleday [1954]

1954

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 75-2827Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Notes of a voyage to California via Cape Horn, together with scenes in El Dorado, in the years 1849-50.

Book/Text

New York, Arno Press, 1973 [c1878]

1973-1878

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 77-481Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Joe Zumwalt, forty-niner : the restless one / Kenneth D. Zumwalt, author ; Richard A. Zumwalt, illustrator.

Book/Text

San Diego, CA. : Trade Print. Co., c1976.

1976

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FormatBook/TextCall numberAPV (Zumwalt) 77-661Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Manifest destiny in the mines : a cultural interpretation of anti-Mexican nativism in California, 1848-1853 / by Richard H. Peterson.

Book/Text

San Francisco : R and E Research Associates, 1975.

1975

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 77-1184Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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49er Irish : one Irish family in the California mines / F. D. Calhoon. 1st ed.

Book/Text

Hicksville, N.Y. : Exposition Press, c1977.

1977

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIEH 77-2214Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The gold rush : letters of Dr. James Delavan from California to the Adrian, Michigan, Expositor, 1850-1856.

Book/Text

Mount Pleasant, Mich. : Cumming Press, c1976.

1976

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 77-2238Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Blacks in Gold Rush California / Rudolph M. Lapp.

Book/Text

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1977.

1977

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIEC 77-2565Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Fortunes are for the few : letters of a forty-niner / by Charles William Churchill ; edited by Duane A. Smith & David J. Weber.

Book/Text

[San Diego] : San Diego Historical Society, 1977.

1977

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 78-1708Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Gold rush steamers of the Pacific / Ernest A. Wiltsee.

Book/Text

Lawrence, Mass. : Quarterman Publications, c1976.

1976-1938

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 78-2157Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The argonauts of California; being the reminiscences of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in early mining days, by a pioneer... Text and illus. drawn from life by C. W. Haskins.

Book/Text

New York, Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1890.

1890

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 78-695 INDEXItem locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 78-695Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The Jews in the California Gold Rush / by Robert E. Levinson.

Book/Text

New York : Ktav Pub. House, 1978.

1978

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FormatBook/TextCall number*PXY 79-2209Item locationSchwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111

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Blacks in Gold Rush California / Rudolph M. Lapp.

Book/Text

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1977.

1977

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 79-268Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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California, in-doors and out; or, How we farm, mine, and live generally in the Golden State.

Microform

New York, Dix, Edwards, 1856.

1856

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FormatMicroformCall number*ZAN-T3340 reel 257 no. 1723-1729, v. 2Item locationOffsite

Eldorado; or, Adventures in the path of empire: comprising a voyage to California, via Panama; life in San Francisco and Monterey; pictures of the gold region, and experiences of Mexican travel. With illustrations by the author.

Book/Text

New York, G. P. Putnam, 1850.

1850

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FormatBook/TextCall number*KF 1850 79-138Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Hangtown ballads : dedicated to the memory of "Old Put."

Book/Text

Georgetown, California : The Forty-Niner, [1949]

1949

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJND 79-14Item locationOffsite

The argonauts of 'forty-nine. some recollections of the plains and diggings, by David Rohrer Leeper. Illustrated by O. Marion Elbel.

Book/Text

[South Bend, Ind., Northern Indiana Historical Society, 1977.

1977-1894

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 78-1943Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The pioneers of Unadilla village, 1784-1840, by Francis Whiting Halsey... Reminiscences of village life and of Panama and California from 1840 to 1850, by Gaius Leonard Halsey...

Microform

Unadilla, N. Y. [Press of G. D. Raitt] 1902.

1902

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FormatTextCall number*ZI-920 r. 78: no. 312-318 Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Gold dust / Donald Dale Jackson. 1st ed.

Book/Text

New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House, 1980.

1980

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 80-1901Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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A frontier lady : recollections of the gold rush and early California / by Sarah Royce ; with a foreword by Katharine Royce ; edited by Ralph Henry Gabriel.

Book/Text

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1977, c1932.

1977-1932

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIW 80-812Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Golden dreams / by Gwen Bristow.

Book/Text

New York : Lippincott & Crowell, c1980.

1980

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 80-2619Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Chercheur d'or : vie et aventures d'un enfant de l'Ardenne / Jean-Nicolas Perlot ; adaptation et présentation par André Dejardin.

Book/Text

Gembloux : Duculot, 1974.

1974

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 80-3245Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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The world rushed in : the California gold rush experience / J.S. Holliday.

Book/Text

New York : Simon and Schuster, c1981.

1981

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 82-437Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Edward F. Beale and the American West / Gerald Thompson.

Book/Text

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1983]

1983

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIW 83-2091Item locationOffsite

Gold : the marvellous history of General John Augustus Sutter / Blaise Cendrars ; translated from the French by Nina Rootes.

Book/Text

London : Peter Owen, 1982.

1982

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFC 83-1645Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The fools of '49 : the California gold rush, 1848-1856 / Laurence I. Seidman ; with maps, contemporary prints, photos., and songs.

Book/Text

New York : Knopf : distributed by Random House, c1976.

1976

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 84-3926Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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California gold rush : diary of Charles H. Harvey, February 12-November 12, 1852 / annotated by Edmund F. Ball ; edited by Douglas E. Clanin.

Book/Text

Indianapolis : Indiana Historical Society, 1983.

1983

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FormatBook/TextCall numberIXG 84-1597Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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