Bibliography and Links
Related Publications (nonfiction):
Leonard Arrington. Charles C. Rich: Morman General and Western Frontiersman (1974).
Peter Browning, ed. To the Golden Shore: America Goes to California, 1849 (1995).
John Mack Faragher. Women and Men on the Overland Trail.
Kenneth L. Holmes and Anne M. Butler, eds. Covered Wagon Women, Volume One:
Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 (1995).
Susan Lee Johnson. Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush (2000).
Michael Kowalewski, ed. Gold Rush: A Literary Exploration (1997).
Edward Lyman. San Bernardino: The Rise and Fall of a California Community (1996).
Frank McLynn. Wagons West,The Epic Story of the Overland Trail (2002).
Joaquin Miller. Life Among the Modocs (1873)
Linda S. Peavy and Ursula Smith. Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement: The
Lives of Women on the Frontier (1994).
Malcolm Rohrbough. Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation
(1997).
Joanna Stratton. Pioneer Woman: Voices from the Kansas Frontier (1981).
Lillian Schlissel. Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey (1992).
Mark Twain. Roughing It.
Related Publications (fiction):
Isabel Allende. Daughter of Fortune: A Novel (1999)
Web / Multimedia Suggestions:
Overland Trail
http://www.asu.edu/lib/hayden/ref/his/overland.htm
http://www.over-land.com/
http://www.ceraexhibits.org/exhibits/history/overlandtrail/index.htm
http://www.over-land.com/diaries.html
Gold Rush History
http://www.historichwy49.com/goldrush.html
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/home.html
http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/
Life in a Mining Camp
http://www.sierrafoothillmagazine.com/brannan.html
http://www.saintswithouthalos.com/b/lyman_ah.phtml
http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/w/o/wol3/lymanam1.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amasa_M._Lyman
http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/r/RICH,CHARLES.html
Films / Documentaries:
“The Gold Rush.” Steven Boettcher and Michael Trinklein, dir. (1998).
Terminology links:
Cape Horn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Horn
Excommunication
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommunication
Foreign miners tax
http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/curriculum/gamsaan/foreigntax2.html
Free labor
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=90104191
Jason and the Argonauts
http://www.greece.org/poseidon/work/argonautika/argo.html
Mormon Trail
http://www.americanwest.com/trails/pages/mormtrl.htm
Placer gold
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placer_mining
Tithe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithe
Valparaíso
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso