A golden state : mining and economic development in gold rush California / editors James J. Rawls and Richard J. Orsi ; associate editor Marlene Smith-Baranzini ; illustrations editor Anthony Kirk
A golden state : an introduction / James J. Rawls -- Making old tools work better : pragmatic adaptation and innovation in Gold-Rush technology / Ronald H. Limbaugh -- Capitalism comes to the diggings : from Gold-Rush adventure to corporate enterprise / Maureen A. Jung -- "We all live more like brutes than humans" : labor and capital in the Gold Rush / Daniel Cornford -- Environmental changes before and after the Gold Rush / Raymond F. Dasmann -- "I am resolved not to interfere, but permit all to work freely" : the Gold Rush and American resource law / Donald J. Pisani -- Mother lode for the West : California mining men and methods / Duane A. Smith -- Seeing the elephant / Anthony Kirk -- The Gold Rush and the beginnings of California industry / David J. St. Clair -- From hard money to branch banking : California banking in the Gold-Rush economy / Larry Schweikart and Lynne Pierson Doti -- "Property of every kind" : ranching and farming during the Gold-Rush era / Lawrence James Jelinek -- The golden skein : California's Gold-Rush transportation network / A.C.W. Bethel -- A veritable revolution : the global economic significance of the California Gold Rush / Gerald D. Nash
Notes
"Published in association with the California Historical Society."
