Meldahl, a geologist, has personally inspected the entire 2,000-mile Overland Trail to Gold Rush California while, at the same time, collecting insightful passages from 49ers' journals. His theme is that North America's millions of years of geological history have guided the course of the continent's human history, including the rush for riches in 1849. Readers interested in science will appreciate th
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