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n o t e s Prologue. “Glorious” 1. Quoted in Rodman W. Paul, ed., The California Gold Discovery: Sources, Documents, Accounts, and Memoirs Relating to the Discovery of Gold at Sutter’s Mill (Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1966), 199. 2. This short narrative of events draws from the following: Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California, 7 vols. (San Francisco: History Co., 1884–90), 6:26–428; H. W. Brands, The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (New York: Doubleday , 2002); John Walton Caughey, The California Gold Rush (1948; reprint, Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1975); J. S. Holliday, The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981); Rodman W. Paul, California Gold: The Beginning of Mining in the Far West (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1947); Paul, The California Gold Discovery; James J. Rawls and Walton Bean, California: An Interpretive History, 6th ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993), 82–95; Richard B. Rice, William A. Bullough, and Richard J. Orsi, The Elusive Eden: A New History of California, 2nd ed. (New York: McGrawHill , 1996), 185–204; Malcolm J. Rohrbough, Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1997); Kevin Starr, Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915 (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1973), 49–68; Richard T. Stillson, “Golden Words: Communications and Information Dispersal in the California Gold Rush” (Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 2003). 3. Quoted in Paul, The California Gold Discovery, 129. 4. Quoted in Bancroft, History of California, 6:56. 5. Ibid., 6:60. 6. Quoted in Paul, The California Gold Discovery, 101. 7. Quoted in Caughey, The California Gold Rush, 40. 8. Ibid. 9. Quoted in Paul, The California Gold Discovery, 97. 10. Quoted in Rohrbough, Days of Gold, 27. 11. Ibid., 26. 12. Stephen J. Field, Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California (1893; reprint, New York: Da Capo Press, 1968), 6–7. 13. E.g, Missouri Whig (Palmyra), Feb. 14, 1850. 14. Quoted in Rawls and Bean, California, 146. 15. Quoted in Caughey, The California Gold Rush, 293. 16. Quoted in Starr, Americans and the California Dream, 55. 17. Ibid., 57. 18. In addition to Brands, The Age of Gold, and Rohrbough, Days of Gold, see, among many others, Susan L. Johnson, Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush (New York: Norton, 2000); Brian Roberts, American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-Class Culture (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2000); Kenneth N. Owens, ed., Riches for All: The California Gold Rush and the World (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2002); and the four-volume California History Sesquicentennial Series, published by the University of California Press: Ramón A. Gutiérrez and Richard J. Orsi, eds., Contested Eden: California before the Gold Rush (1997); James J. Rawls and Richard J. Orsi, eds., A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California (1999); Kevin Starr and Richard J. Orsi, eds., Rooted in Barbarous Soil: People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California (2000); and John F. Burns and Richard J. Orsi, eds., Taming the Elephant: Politics, Government, and Law in Pioneer California (2003). 19. Quoted in Bancroft, History of California, 6:118. 20. Holliday, The World Rushed In. 21. Rohrbough, Days of Gold, 6. 22. Joyce Oldham Appleby, “The Vexed Story of American Capitalism Told by American Historians,” Journal of the Early Republic 21 (Spring 2001): 1–18; Starr, Americans and the California Dream, 49–68; Brands, The Age of Gold, esp. 441–43; Jackson Lears, Something for Nothing: Luck in America (New York: Viking Penguin, 2003), esp. 1–24; David Vaught, “State of the Art—Rural History, or Why Is There No Rural History of California?” Agricultural History 74 (Fall 2000): 759–74. Chapter One. Removals 1. George W. Pierce, Daily Journals, 1867–90, entries for Feb. 16 and 17, 1882; Feb. 16 and 17 (quote), 1884; Apr. 19, 1887, Pierce Family Papers, Department of Special Collections , University of California Library, Davis (hereafter Pierce journal); Sacramento Daily Union, Feb. 17, 1854; Joann Leach Larkey, Davisville ’68: The History and Heritage of the City of Davis, Yolo County, California (Davis: Davis Historical and Landmarks Commission, 1969), 200–202. 2. Pierce journal, Apr. 20, 1882; Apr. 20 and July 8, 1884; Apr. 20 and July 8, 1886; Apr. 20, 1887; July 4 and 8, 1888; July 8, 1889; Yolo Weekly Mail, Mar. 1, 1890; Mail of Woodland, Oct. 27, 1908...

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