Gold: firsthand accounts from the rush that made the West

Introduction: The World's Most Humongous Treasure Hunt

Part One. Nonfiction

Discovering Gold / James Marshall

My Great Plans Were Destroyed / John A. Sutter

"Gold! Gold!!!" / General William Tecumseh Sherman

The Californian Ceases Publication / The Californian

Official Report to the US Government / Colonel Richard Mason

Trading for Dust / Franklin Buck

The Rush Begins / Elisha Oscar Crosby

A Flood of Pioneers / Alonzo Delano

Rich Diggings / James Ayers

Of Miners and Gold / Carl Meyer

Living Dead in Califor-nee / Alonzo Delano

Seeking Richer Diggings / John S. Hittell

California's Strange Society / Henry Coke

The Fast Life in San Francisco / J.D. Borthwick

To Live by Luck / Henry David Thoreau

A Woman at the Mines / Dame Shirley

Gold Made Misery My Companion / Alonzo Delano

Christmas and New Years' in Mud Springs / Andrew Gilmore

San Francisco and Its Corrupt Government / Mifflin Wistar Gibbs

Flush Times in California / Ulysses S. Grant

Lost in Snow / Anonymous

The Strangest Population / Mark Twain

Part Two. Fiction

All Gold Ca�non / Jack London

The Banks of the Sacramento / Jack London

Scorpion Gulch / Nathan Urner

The Luck of Roaring Camp / Bret Harte

How I Went to the Mines / Bret Harte.