Precious Dust: The Saga of the Western Gold Rush

By Paula Mitchell Marks

Book Overview

The boom era began with the discovery of gold in California in 1848 and extended over fifty years to include the rushes in the Pikes Peak region in Colorado, the Black Hills of South Dakota, Alder... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062585886
• ISBN13: 9780062585882
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7

Customer Reviews

good historical reading

This book is great if you want to know about the gold rushes of America. She organized it in good ways to keep the different aspects of the rushes interesting.