Foreword Preface Maps PART ONE Introduction: Race, Property, and the California Gold Rush Before the Gold Rush The Gold Rush After the Gold Rush The Gold Rush in Historical Memory PART TWO The Documents 1. Discovery 1. Azariah Smith, The Gold Discovery Journal , 1848 2. William T. Sherman , Memoirs , 1875 3. Colonel Richard Mason, Letter to Brigadier General R. Jones , August 17, 1848 4. Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clapp, The Shirley Letters from the California Mines, 1851-52 5.
Joseph Pownall, Letter to Dr. O. C. Pownall , May 1850 6. Joseph B. Chaffee, Letters to his Parents in Binghampton, New York , 1850-1851 2. Cities 7. Elisha Oscar Crosby, Memoirs 8.
Daily Alta California, Terrible Riot at Sacramento , August 15, 1850 9. Charles Robinson, The Sacramento Riot , 1892 10. John Frederick Morse, History of Sacramento , 1853 11. Henry A. Parker, Letters to his Mother, 1852-1853 12. Lell Hawley Wooley, California, 1849-1913 , 1913 3. The National and Transnational Contexts of the Gold Rush 13. California Constitutional Convention, Debates , 1849 14.
San Francisco Bulletin, Stovall v. Archy , February 13, 1858 15. Vicente Pérez Rosales, Times Gone By , 1882 16. Edward Hargraves, Australia and Its Gold Fields , 1855 17. John T. Know, Letter to the Sacramento Daily Union , May 31, 1858 4. Californios 18. Richard Henry Dana, Two Years before the Mast , 1840 19.
Edwin Bryant, What I Saw in California , 1848 20. John S. Hittell, Mexican Land-Claims in California, April 1858 21. Cave Johnson Couts, Abel Stearns, and Charles Robinson, Letters, 1852-1857 22. Juan Bandini, Last Will and Testament, 1859 5. Natives 23. Isaac Perkins, Letter to Daniel Perkins, January 30, 1851 24. George Gibbs, J.
A. Whaley, C. Woodford, J.W. Holt, Chas. Liscom, R. Wiley, and Edw. Kingwood, To the Governor of California , June 27, 1852 25.
Stephen Powers, The Chi-mal''-a-kwe , 1877 26. Bret Harte, Indiscriminate Massacre of Indians: Women and Children Butchered , February 29, 1860 6. Chinese 27. Norman Asing (Sang Yuen), To His Excellency Gov. Bigler , May 5, 1852 28. Humboldt Times, Anti-Coolie Association , January 25, 1862 29. Mark Twain, Roughing It , 1872 30. Chinese Exclusion Act , May 6, 1882 7.
Chinese 31. John H. Eagle, To his Wife, Margaret H. Eagle, April 10, 1852 32. John Thompson Kincade, Letters to James Kincade , 1850-1871 33. Sacramento Daily Union, Hydraulic Mining , July 11, 1854 34. William Wells, The Quicksilver Mines of New Almaden, California , June 1863 35. Hamilton Smith, Jr.
, Circular Letter to Hydraulic Miners , 1876 36. Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the 22nd Session of the Legislature of the State of California, Testimony Taken by the Committee on Mining Debris, as Reported to the Assembly, 22nd Sess. , 1877-1878 37. Woodruff v. North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Co ., January 7, 1884 8. Reflections 38. Charles Howard Shinn, Mining Camps: A Study in American Frontier Government , 1884 39.
Josiah Royce, California, from the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco: A Study of American Character , 1886 40. Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California , 1890 APPENDIXES A Chronology of the California Gold Rush (1572 - 1885) Questions for Consideration Selected Bibliography Index.