Gold! (36 page)
Authors: Fred Rosen
tools and goods.
See
commerce; gold mining equipment
transcontinental railroad, feasibility of,
73
transportation.
See
steamships
Treaty of Cahuenga (1847),
261
â
65
Treaty of Greenville (1796),
xxii
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo (1848)
amity, commerce, and navigation,
281
on boundary between U.S. and Mexico,
66
,
270
â
73
Californios and,
192
declarations of peace,
265
â
67
on disagreements or war subsequent to the treaty,
285
â
88
discharge of debts owed by Mexico and Mexicans,
279
â
81
on duties and bonds,
267
â
68
,
285
on exports from Mexico related to troop withdrawal,
284
â
85
on imports into Mexico,
282
â
84
on Mexicans living on U.S. side,
274
â
75
payment due Mexico for land,
278
â
79
on prisoners of war,
270
,
288
â
89
on Rio Grande River travel,
273
â
74
on U.S. control of “savage tribes,”
276
â
78
on U.S. withdrawal from Mexico,
268
â
70
on withdrawal of U.S. troops in Mexico,
281
â
82
trenches and flumes,
191
Trist, Nicholas,
41
â
43
.
See also
Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
Tyler, John,
16
Van Buren, Martin,
100
Vigilance Committee of San Francisco,
179
â
83
,
186
Walker (McNeil's traveling companion),
167
â
68
Washingtonville (mining camp),
190
â
91
Weber River Canyon, Donner Party and,
23
wheelwright,
13
.
See also
Marshall, James
Whig Party,
100
,
105
.
See also
Taylor, Zachary
Wittmer, Jacob,
61
Wood, William Maxwell,
10
woven Indian baskets, mining with,
68
Wright, Daniel H.,
214
Zane, Ebenezer,
xxiii
Zane's Trace,
xxiii
Zapatero (Tejon chief),
196
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The opportunity to write about history is as chance an occurrence as history itself. That is rather appropriate, considering this book itself is about a chance occurrence.
It was John Oakes who came up with the idea and gave me the vision. He saw first that the Gold Rush affected everybody, and I thank him for the opportunity to prove him right. Catheline Jean-François's editing and suggestions made it even better.
Lori Perkins
is
George Tobias, the great Hollywood character actor who always played the sympathetic agent. I thank her for her ideas and support and thank God she looks nothing like George Tobias.
The librarians and others at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., made my research easy. As did the California state rangers in Sacramento and Coloma. They are wonderful custodians of our nation's history.
Most of all, thanks to my wife, Leah, and my daughter, Sara, for their support.
AUTHOR'S NOTE
This book is a work of nonfiction, though many of its elements have been heavily fictionalized in the past. If there is any doubt about that, just glance at the story of Joaquin Murietta; it has been fictionalized so many times, it is almost impossible to tell fiction from fact.
To try to present as accurate a record as possible of the time in question, I have treated the Gold Rush as a story of investigative journalism. I have gone to the primary sources. Through research at the Library of Congress, the California Historical Society, and other databases, this book relies on firsthand accounts of the participants in the period of California's change into a state and America into a postindustrialized society. On-site research at Sutter's Fort, Coloma, Hangtown, and other towns in gold country helped to understand things first-hand.
I retain the journalistic prerogative to evaluate the information from these sources, and when two or more accounts compete, I have made a concerted judgment on which is the most truthful.
About the Author
A former columnist for the Arts & Leisure section of the
New York Times
, Fred Rosen is an award-winning author of true crime and history books, including
Gold!
,
Did They Really Do It?
, and
Lobster Boy
. He can frequently be seen on the Investigation Discovery network's
Evil Kin and Evil Twins
TV series, where he is a regular on-air commentator.
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Copyright © 2005 by Fred Rosen
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ISBN: 978-1-5040-2448-8
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