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An event of international significance, the California gold rush created a more diverse, metropolitan society than the world had ever known. In Riches for All, leading scholars reexamine the gold rush, evaluating its trajectory and legacy within a global context of religion and race, economics, technology, law, and culture. The opportunity for instant wealth directly influenced a dynamic range of peoples, including Mormon military veterans, California Indian workers, both slave and free African Americans, Chinese village farmers, skilled Mexican miners, and Chilean merchants. Riches for All gives attention to the varying motivations and experiences of these groups and to their struggles with both racial and religious bigotry. Emphasizing gold rush social history, some contributors examine the roles and influence of women, workers, law-breakers, and law-enforcers. Others consider the long-term impact of this episode on California and the American West and on subsequent gold rushes in Pacific Rim countries and the Klondike.With lively and incisive strokes, these historians sketch the most broadly contextualized and nuanced portrait of the California gold rush to date.
Kenneth N. Owens is a professor emeritus of history and ethnic studies at California State University, Sacramento. He is the editor of The Wreck of the Sv. Nikolai and John Sutter and a Wider West, both available in Bison Books editions.
Preface; Introduction Kenneth N. Owens 1. Gold-Rich Saints: Mormon Beginnings of the California Gold Rush Kenneth N. Owens 2. "We Will Make Our Fortunes--No Doubt of It": The Worldwide Rush to California Malcolm J. Rohrbough 3. "The Greatest and Most Perverted Paradise": Forty-Niners in Latin America Brian Roberts 4. Clouded Legacy: California Indians and the Gold Rush Albert L. Hurtado 5. "My Brother's Keeper": Mexicans and the Hunt for Prosperity in California, 1848-2 Michael J. Gonzalez 6. Never Far from Home: Being Chinese in the California Gold Rush Sylvia Sun Minnick 7. "Do You Think I'll Lug Trunks?" African Americans in Gold Rush California Shirley Ann Wilson Moore 8. Disorder, Crime, and Punishment in the California Gold Rush Martin Ridge 9. Where Have All the Young Men Gone? The Social Legacy of the California Gold Rush Elizabeth Jameson 10. The Last Fandango: Women, Work, and the End of the California Gold Rush Susan L. Johnson 11. After California: Later Gold Rushes of the Pacific Basin Jeremy Mouat 12. From Gold Pans to California Dredges: The Search for Mass Production in Placer Mining Clark C. Spence 13. The Last Great Gold Rush: From California to the Klondike in the Nineteenth Century Charlene Porsild 14. Begun by Gold: Sacramento and the Gold Rush Legacy after 150;Years Kenneth N. Owens List of Contributors; Index
