Roaring Camp

This work explores the dymanic social world created by the Gold Rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills. It examines the social vortex - multiracial, multiethnic, o... » 

This work explores the dymanic social world created by the Gold Rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills. It examines the social vortex - multiracial, multiethnic, often homosocial - in which Frenchmen lived alongside Anglos and Cherokee women, Mexican families and Mitok Indians. «