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

   

   Comment by ttown · April 23, 2007 2:44AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   Here's a book review: Cal Gold Rush

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   Comment by fc · April 23, 2007 9:00AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   thanks dave. this will make fun reading while i wait for an auction to close. i love the gold rush era.

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

   

   Discussion by drddm · April 23, 2007 12:36AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   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

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   Comment by RYK · April 23, 2007 12:43AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   This is a massive tome on the California Gold Rush and is written in the typical, readable Bowers style. It is well-illustrated with lots of contemporary historical photos, drawings, letters, and news clips. My only problem with the book is that it is physically to big to comfortably read and to voluminous to attempt…

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   Comment by Mark · April 23, 2007 3:50AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   I have owned the book now for 2 years. But I cannot read the book in bed, which is my favorite reading spot and time for numismatic books. The book is simply too large. If you do not own the book, it may seem odd to complain about a book's physical dimensions, but once you buy it you'll understand. Longacre's question is…

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   Comment by fc · April 23, 2007 12:49AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   i have forgotten all the books i have read about the gold rush, but 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…

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   Comment by DaveG · April 23, 2007 8:47AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   You can read some of the book for FREE here!

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   Comment by CaptHenway · April 23, 2007 5:22AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   Hey, it's a coffee table book! Put legs on the four corners, and you've got yourself a coffee table!!!!!! LOL TD

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   Comment by CaptHenway · April 23, 2007 3:33AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   I was fortunate enough to be able to read the entire book, line for line, in galley form, so that I did not have to pick up the finished volume! 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

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    Comment by RWB · April 23, 2007 3:27AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

    Excerpt from a review by Robert B. Cook, Auburn University from “Rocks & Minerals Magazine.” 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…