To the Golden Shore: America Goes to California-1849

Everything in this book is taken from 1848 and 1849 Eastern newspapers. Articles, editorials, sermons, poetry, songs, advertisements -- and letters from the multitudes who were striving toward California via the Isthmus of Panama, around Cape Horn, through the Strait of Magellan, across the plains, the Gila River route, and via Mexico and Nicaragua. Here is the California Gold Rush -- upheaval, adventure, suffering, death, wonderful success, and tragic failure -- the record of the great event of the age.Peter Browning is the author of 'To the Golden Shore: America Goes to California-1849', published 1995 under ISBN 9780944220078 and ISBN 094422007X.