Article Title

The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War

Authors

Nicole Etcheson

ISBN

9780307265203

Price

$25.00 hardcover

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Abstract

California's Sectional Conflict

A few years ago, Leonard L. Richards wrote The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860 (2000), a very good addition to the growing literature re-examining the influence slave owners had in United States politics before the Civil....

Recommended Citation

Etcheson, Nicole (2007) "The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 9 : Iss. 2 .
Available at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol9/iss2/7