ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextIntroduction: The World's Most Humongous Treasure HuntPart One: Nonfiction1 Discovering Gold: James Marshall2 My Great Plans Were Destroyed: John A. Sutter3 "Gold! Gold!!!": General William Tecumseh Sherman4 The Californian Ceases Publication: The Californian5 Official Report to the US Government: Colonel Richard Mason6 Trading for Dust: Franklin Buck 7 The Rush Begins: Elisha Oscar Crosby8 A Flood of Pioneers: Alonzo Delano9 Rich Diggings: James Ayers10 Of Miners and Gold: Carl Meyer11 Living Dead in Califor-nee: Alonzo Delano12 Seeking Richer Diggings: John S. Hittell13 California's Strange Society: Henry Coke14 The Fast Life in San Francisco: J. D. Borthwick15 To Live by Luck: Henry David Thoreau16 A Woman at the Mines: Dame Shirley17 Gold Made Misery My Companion: Alonzo Delano18 Christmas and New Years' in Mud Springs: Andrew Gilmore19 San Francisco and Its Corrupt Government: Mifflin Wistar Gibbs20 Flush Times in California: Ulysses S. Grant21 Lost in Snow: Anonymous22 The Strangest Population: Mark TwainPart Two: Fiction23 All Gold Canon: Jack London24 The Banks of the Sacramento: Jack London25 ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on the TextIntroduction: The World's Most Humongous Treasure HuntPart One: Nonfiction1 Discovering Gold: James Marshall2 My Great Plans Were Destroyed: John A. Sutter3 "Gold! Gold!!!": General William Tecumseh Sherman4 The Californian Ceases Publication: The Californian5 Official Report to the US Government: Colonel Richard Mason6 Trading for Dust: Franklin Buck 7 The Rush Begins: Elisha Oscar Crosby8 A Flood of Pioneers: Alonzo Delano9 Rich Diggings: James Ayers10 Of Miners and Gold: Carl Meyer11 Living Dead in Califor-nee: Alonzo Delano12 Seeking Richer Diggings: John S. Hittell13 California's Strange Society: Henry Coke14 The Fast Life in San Francisco: J. D. Borthwick15 To Live by Luck: Henry David Thoreau16 A Woman at the Mines: Dame Shirley17 Gold Made Misery My Companion: Alonzo Delano18 Christmas and New Years' in Mud Springs: Andrew Gilmore19 San Francisco and Its Corrupt Government: Mifflin Wistar Gibbs20 Flush Times in California: Ulysses S. Grant21 Lost in Snow: Anonymous22 The Strangest Population: Mark TwainPart Two: Fiction23 All Gold Canon: Jack London24 The Banks of the Sacramento: Jack London25 Scorpion Gulch: Nathan Urner26 The Luck of Roaring Camp: Bret Harte27 How I Went to the Mines: Bret HarteScorpion Gulch: Nathan Urner26 The Luck of Roaring Camp: Bret Harte27 How I Went to the Mines: Bret Harte
