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" The whole country, from San Francisco to Los Angeles and from the seashore to the base of the Sierra Nevada, resounds with the sordid cry of 'gold! GOLD!! GOLD!!! "
The Golden State: A History of the Region West of the Rocky Mountains ... - Page 256
by Rolander Guy McClellan - 1875 - 711 pages
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Instant Cities: Urbanization and the Rise of San Francisco and Denver, Volume 1

Gunther Paul Barth - 1975 - 342 pages
...advertising patrons have closed their doors and places of business, and left town," the editor explained. "The whole country, from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and from the sea shore to the base of the Sierra Nevada," his last editorial lamented, "resounds with the sordid...
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Mineral Industry in Early America

Hillary W. St. Clair - 1977 - 94 pages
...country." On the 29th of May, The Californian announced suspension of publication and also reported: "The whole country, from San Francisco to Los Angeles,...seashore to the base of the Sierra Nevada, resounds to the sordid cry of gold! gold! gold! While the field is left half-planted, the house half-built,...
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Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West

Vardis Fisher, Opal Laurel Holmes, Opal Laurel Fisher - 1968 - 492 pages
...sometimes even thousands, of dollars were spoken of as the reward of a day's labour." The Star was saying: "The whole country from San Francisco to Los Angeles...seashore to the base of the Sierra Nevada resounds to the sordid cry of Gold! GOLDI GOLD! The fields are left half-planted, the houses half-built. Everything...
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The Living Rock: The Story of Metals Since Earliest Times and Their Impact ...

Arthur Wilson - 1994 - 318 pages
...(having lost its editor and most of the staff in the general exodus), its final edition reporting: The whole country, from San Francisco to Los Angeles,...seashore to the base of the Sierra Nevada, resounds to the sordid cry of gold! gold! gold! While the field is left half-planted, the house half-built,...
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Dream Reaper: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Inventor in the High-Tech, High ...

Craig Canine - 1997 - 320 pages
...publication for lack of readers. "The whole country," the Califorman complained in its last issue, "resounds with the sordid cry of 'gold! Gold!! GOLD!!!'...field is left half planted, the house half built, and everything neglected but the manufacture of shovels and pickaxes." Two weeks later Kemble gave up,...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Old West

Mike Flanagan - 1999 - 488 pages
..."seven men with picks and spades could gather $1,600 worth of gold in fifteen days." Smoke Signals "The whole country, from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and from the seashore to the base of Sierra Nevada, resounds with the sordid cry of gold! Gold!! GOLD!!! while the field is left unplanted,...
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A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California

Marlene Smith-Baranzini - 1999 - 532 pages
...various parts of the country have left their usual places of abode, and gone to the gold region. . . . The whole country from San Francisco to Los Angeles and from the sea to the Sierra Nevada resounds with the sordid cry of "gold! GOLD!! GOLD///" while the field is...
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The History of the Gold Discoveries of the Northern Mine's [sic] of ...

2000 - 340 pages
...attention from any one of our citizens. This, it must be allowed, is decidedly encouraging - very. The whole country, from San Francisco to Los Angeles,...seashore to the base of the Sierra Nevada, resounds to the sordid cry of gold! Gold! GOLD! while the fields are left half planted, the house half built...
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The Great West

David Sievert Lavender, David Lavender - 2000 - 474 pages
...Westerners, the madness was acute. "The whole country," wrote one San Francisco newspaper editor, "... resounds with the sordid cry of 'gold! GOLD! GOLD!'...field is left half planted, the house half built, and everything neglected but the manufacture of shovels and pick axes." The alcalde of Monterey described...
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American Alchemy: The California Gold Rush and Middle-class Culture

Brian Roberts - 2000 - 366 pages
...thought of corroboration, sometimes side by side with warnings against gold bubbles and filthy lucre. "The whole country, from San Francisco to Los Angeles and from the sea shore to the base of the Sierra Nevada, resounds with the sordid cry of i gold \ GOLD!! GOLD!!!'"...
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