- Description
- 396 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Young, Brigham, 1801-1877
- Sutter, John Augustus, 1803-1880
- Brannan, Sam, 1819-1889
- Pratt, Addison, -1872
- Judd, Zadok Knapp, 1828-1909
- Holmes, Jonathan Harriman, -1880
- Latter Day Saints > California > History > 19th century
- California > Gold discoveries
- California > History > 1846-1850
- Sutter's Fort (Sacramento, Calif.) > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-384) and index.
- Contents
- "For the coming of the church": the Brooklyn saints arrive in California -- "Return to California and go to work": the battalion veterans follow church counsel -- "Gold, boys, gold": Mormon beginnings of the California gold rush -- "I certainly never made money so fast": mining at Mormon Island and Natomas Diggings -- "We left the gold fields of California": opening the Carson Pass Wagon Road -- "Greedy after the things of this world": Brigham Young's California gold rush policy -- "The whole country was agog with excitement": Mormon mining, farming, trade, and travel in the gold country -- "To defend yourselves against all our foes": The LDS reformation, the Utah War, and the summons to Zion -- "We are the men that developed the resources of the Pacific Coast": the forgotten heritage of California's gold rush saints.
- ISBN
- OCLC
- 61521572
- Author
Owens, Kenneth N.
- Title
Gold rush saints : California Mormons and the great rush for riches / by Kenneth N. Owens.
- Imprint
Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, 2005.
- Edition
Paperback ed.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-384) and index.
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