Hard Road West
History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail
352 pages, 89 halftones, 10 line drawings 6 x 9
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2007
Cloth $25.00
ISBN: 9780226519609
Published September 2007
Paper $17.00
ISBN: 9780226519623
Published October 2008
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Preface
Introduction: Stardust
1 An American Journey
2 Between Winter’s Chill Brackets
3 Ascending the Plains
4 Exhumed Mountains and Hungry Rivers
5 Black Hills and Bent Rock
6 To the Backbone of the Continent
7 Cordilleran Upheaval
8 Most Godforsaken Country
9 The Bear and the Snake
10 A Breaking Up of the World
11 Most Miserable River
12 The Worst Desert You Ever Saw
13 Into the Land of Gold
14 Contingent History
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Figure Credits
Index
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