Can anyone advise me if The California Gold Rush History book by QDB is a good book?

Can anyone give me a little review on what they think of this book?
It looks like it has a lot of info, and I'm a fan of Bowers so I'm thinking about getting it.
Is the leather bound edition nice? Does anyone have this deluxe edition?
Thanks everyone
It looks like it has a lot of info, and I'm a fan of Bowers so I'm thinking about getting it.
Is the leather bound edition nice? Does anyone have this deluxe edition?
Thanks everyone
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what i do know is the best place to start for information about that
time frame is your local library.
while you are there ask them about this book. i am sure a local library
in your state has a copy and would gladly lend it to your for a week
or three.
it is surprising what books give you good info about that time frame
and which ones just regurgitate the same old stories.. the initial
discovery, the famous gold areas, etc...
i believe the best way to study it is to find the oldest books possible
about the era. try to read material written by folks who were there
to get a sense of the time frame. your library will have those books.
It's a great read, beautifully produced, and a must-have if the subject matter interests you. Also, since the sale of the loot from the SS Central American underwrote the production of the book, it was actually sold for less than it cost to produce.
Betts medals, colonial coins, US Mint medals, foreign coins found in early America, and other numismatic Americana
Cal Gold Rush
Didn't wanna get me no trade
Never want to be like papa
Working for the boss every night and day
--"Happy", by the Rolling Stones (1972)
The review is very positive however:
“This fabulous work is unnecessarily difficult to use. Its table of contents is only a single page long and essentially lists the chapters by name with no way to home in on topics other than to open to the beginning of a chapter and begin to thumb through the headings and subheadings--and this assumes that someone searching for a particular topic knows the year in which the event occurred. For example, there are more than ninety such subheadings in chapter 1 alone, many of which are intensely interesting but for which the reader is unaware prior to arriving at that page in the book. The index is of some help in this regard if one is searching for the mention of a historical figure, and then it is wonderfully complete. For a book of this length, it would have been a relatively trivial matter to devote another few dozen pages to a comprehensive table of contents. If length were actually an issue, the book title could have been deleted from the top of each page and the space saved used for the expanded table of contents.”
You might also want to examine “Treasure Ship” by Dennis M. Powers.
The book is incredible! The saga of the journeys West is gripping reading notwithstanding the later parts about the coins. Buy it, read it and enjoy it!
Tom DeLorey
Put legs on the four corners, and you've got yourself a coffee table!!!!!!
LOL
TD
Check out the Southern Gold Society
to close. i love the gold rush era.