Trade paperback, 432 pages,
7 x 10, 49 illustrations,
maps, index.
ISBN: 0-944220-07-X
$22.95

To the Golden Shore
America Goes to California—1849
Compiled and edited by Peter Browning

"The story of the California Gold Rush has never been more effectively told." (Contra Costa Times.) The California gold discovery, as it was presented to and understood by people in the United States in 1848 and 1849. The urge, the desire, the excitement, the fever, the mania to go to California and the miraculous discovery of wealth within `easy' grasp was reported at length in the only significant medium of the time—the newspapers.

Everything in this book is taken from 1848 and 1849 newspapers. Included are articles, reportage, editorials, sermons, poetry, songs, advertisements, and a multitude of letters from those who were striving toward California by every means and every route—via the Isthmus of Panama, around Cape Horn and through the Strait of Magellan, across the plains, the Gila River route, across Nicaragua, and several routes through Mexico.

Here is the California Gold Rush—upheaval, adventure, suffering, death, wonderful success, and tragic failure—the record of the great event of the age.

• Disbelief. Excitement. Gold Fever. Gold Mania. The Panic to Go
• The Rush is On. By Land, Sea,—and Air?
• The Overland Routes. The Emigrants. The Throng Advances.
• Cholera and Gold. Money is the Root.
• The Strait of Magellan. The Increase of Everything.
• Death and Dollars. We Have Arrived.