Roaring camp, the social world of the California Gold Rush, Susan Lee Johnson
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Roaring camp, the social world of the California Gold Rush, Susan Lee Johnson
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-448) and index
Illustrations
mapsillustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Roaring camp
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
41601195
Responsibility statement
Susan Lee Johnson
Review
"Susan Lee Johnson's Roaring Camp explores the dynamic social world created by the gold rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Stockton. In it we find Mexican families like the Murrietas who worked the mines, did the wash, and rose up against Anglo rule. There are the California Indians who tried to maintain their customary practices even while helping to construct the sawmill at Sutter's fort where gold was discovered in 1848. We enter the all-male households of the diggings, the mines where the men worked, and the fandango houses where they played. At places like Casa de los Amigos in Stockton, the Long Tom Saloon in Sonora, and Madame Clement's in Mariposa, California, gold found its way out of the hands of men from around the world into the hands of women from Mexico, Chile, and France." "Johnson charts the ways in which the conventions of identity were reshaped in the diggings. More explicitly than back home, where gender could be mapped predictably onto bodies understood as male and female, gender in California chased shamelessly after racial and cultural markers of difference, heedless of bodily configurations."--Jacket
Sub title
the social world of the California Gold Rush
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- California -- Gold discoveries -- Social aspects
- Nevada, Sierra (Calif. et Nev.) -- Découvertes d'or -- Aspect social
- Ethnic relations
- Californie -- Découvertes d'or -- Aspect social
- United States + Sierra Nevada
- California -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- History
- Gold Rush
- Californie -- Relations interethniques
- California
- 1800-1899
- Mining camps
- Manners and customs
- Découvertes d'or -- États-Unis -- Nevada, Sierra (États-Unis)
- Californie (États-Unis) -- Relations interethniques
- Goldrausch
- Kalifornien
- Mining camps -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- History -- 19th century
- Gold mines and mining + Social aspects
- Californie -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 19e siècle
- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Gold discoveries -- Social aspects
- California -- Ethnic relations
- Camps de mineurs -- Nevada, Sierra (Calif. et Nev.) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Découvertes d'or -- États-Unis -- Californie (États-Unis)
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- California -- Gold discoveries -- Social aspects
- Nevada, Sierra (Calif. et Nev.) -- Découvertes d'or -- Aspect social
- Ethnic relations
- Californie -- Découvertes d'or -- Aspect social
- United States + Sierra Nevada
- California -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- History
- Gold Rush
- Californie -- Relations interethniques
- California
- 1800-1899
- Mining camps
- Manners and customs
- Découvertes d'or -- États-Unis -- Nevada, Sierra (États-Unis)
- Californie (États-Unis) -- Relations interethniques
- Goldrausch
- Kalifornien
- Mining camps -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- History -- 19th century
- Gold mines and mining + Social aspects
- Californie -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 19e siècle
- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Gold discoveries -- Social aspects
- California -- Ethnic relations
- Camps de mineurs -- Nevada, Sierra (Calif. et Nev.) -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Découvertes d'or -- États-Unis -- Californie (États-Unis)
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