Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush

by Aims McGuinness

Book Overview

Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. Decades before the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, this slender spit of land abruptly became the linchpin of the fastest route between New York City and San Francisco--a route that combined travel by ship to the east coast of Panama, an overland crossing to Panama City,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801475384
• ISBN13: 9780801475382
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher