The California Gold Rush never stops inspiring stories, and now we have Malcolm J. Rohrbough’s Rush to Gold: The French and the California Gold Rush, 1848-1854. The University of Iowa professor emeritus tells the story of the 30,000 Frenchmen who landed in California by boat, hoping, like everyone else, to get rich. The book opens new ground in explaining how gold fever impacted life and politics in France, which was undergoing a revolution when the rush started in 1848. He bounces across t
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