The Gold Seekers: Gold, Ghosts and Legends from Carolina to California

by Nancy Roberts

Book Overview

This is the first book to tie together the earlier gold rush in the Carolinas and Georgia with the well-known California gold rush of 1849. It presents a history of the Southern gold rush and the legends that have grown up around it. Nancy Roberts tells how it all began in North Carolina, which supplied all the domestic gold coined at the U.S. Mint between 1804 and 1828. She tells the story of the discovery of the gold in Virginia, the Carolinas,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872496589
• ISBN13: 9780872496583
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"