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A riveting portrait of the Gold Rush, by the award-winning author of Down the fantastic Unknown along with the Forger's Spell. In the spring and coil of 1848, rumours began to pass on that gold had been uncovered in a distant location in the Sacramento Valley. A calendar year later, newspaper headlines announced "Gold Fever!" as hundreds of thousands of women and men borrowed money, quit their careers, and allowed themselves - for the first time ever - to imagine a future of convenience and splendor. In The Rush, Edward Dolnick brilliantly recounts their treacherous westward journeys by wagon and on foot, and calls for us to the frenzied yellow metal fields and the rowdy metropolitan areas that sprang from nothing to jam-packed chaos. With an enthralling solid of individuals and views of unimaginable prosperity and desperate damage, The Rush is a fascinating - and rollicking - account of the greatest treasure hunt the entire world has ever seen.
