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Spreading the word : a history of information in the California gold rush
- Title
- Spreading the word : a history of information in the California gold rush / Richard T. Stillson.
- Author
- Stillson, Richard T. (Richard Thomas)
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.
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- Description
- viii, 274 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., maps, facsims.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Communication > Social aspects > History > California > 19th century
- Mass media > United States > History > 19th century
- Publishers' catalogs > United States > Bibliography
- California > Gold discoveries > Information resources > History > 19th century
- California > Guidebooks > Bibliography
- California > Maps > Bibliography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-261) and index.
- Contents
- Newspapers : credibility and information -- The marketplaces for information : guidebooks and maps -- To the trailheads : from advertisements to rumors -- On the trail : from printed guidebooks to mountain man experts -- Information and communications in California : maps, mail, and express -- The gold rush in 1850 : private communications and public information -- Appendix A. Selected booksellers' catalogs, 1844-1847 -- Appendix B. Prices and wages in the gold rush -- Appendix C. Classification of Kurutz bibliography -- Appendix D. Oregon-California trail guidebook title pages.
- Call Number
- IXG 06-7181
- ISBN
- 0803243251 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780803243255 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780803243255
- LCCN
- 2006004324
- 9780803243255
- OCLC
- 64065848
- Author
- Stillson, Richard T. (Richard Thomas)
- Title
- Spreading the word : a history of information in the California gold rush / Richard T. Stillson.
- Imprint
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-261) and index.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780803243255
- Research Call Number
- IXG 06-7181