Curriculum Guide - Special Gold Rush Issue: Autumn 1999
Montana The Magazine of Western History

Created by the Montana Historical Society Education and Publication Offices
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Golden Dreams: Colorado, California, and the Reimagining of America
- Disorder, Crime and Punishment in the California Gold Rush
- 'When a Person Gits to California It Is hard to Sat or Tell When He Gets Away:' Why the Forty-Niners Were Reluctant to Come Home to the Families They Loved
- No Need to Rush: The Chinese, Placer Mining, and the Western Environment
- The Legacy of the Gold Rush
- More than the Glory: Preserving the Gold Rush and Its Outcome at Virginia City