Rooted in Barbarous Soil

People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California

By: Kevin Starr (Editor), Richard J. Orsi (Editor)

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Paperback | 4 October 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Perhaps never in the time-honored American tradition of frontiering did "civilization" appear to sink so low as in gold rush California. A mercurial economy swung from boom to bust, and back again, rendering everyone's fortunes ephemeral. Competition, jealousy, and racism fueled individual and mass violence. Yet, in the very midst of this turbulence, social and cultural forms emerged, gained strength, spread, and took hold. "Rooted in Barbarous Soil, "Volume 3 in the four-volume California History Sesquicentennial Series, is the only book of its kind to examine gold rush society and culture, to present modern interpretations, and to gather up-to-date bibliographies of its topics.
Chapters by leading scholars in their respective fields explore a range of topics including migration and settlement; ethnic diversity, assimilation, cooperation, and conflict; the dispossession of Indians and the Californios; the founding of schools and universities; urban life; women in early California; the sexual frontier; and the development of religion, art, literature, and popular culture. Many rarely seen illustrations supplement the text.

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Preface	p. vii
Rooted in Barbarous Soil: An Introduction to Gold Rush Society and Culture	p. 1
No Boy's Play: Migration and Settlement in Early Gold Rush California	p. 25
A People of Exceptional Character: Ethnic Diversity, Nativism, and Racism in the California Gold Rush	p. 44
"Because he is a liar and a thief": Conquering the Residents of "Old" California, 1850-1880	p. 86
"All hands have gone downtown": Urban Places in Gold Rush California	p. 113
Weaving a Different World: Women and the California Gold Rush	p. 141
"As jolly as a clam at high water": The Rise of Art in Gold Rush California	p. 169
Romancing the Gold Rush: The Literature of the California Frontier	p. 204
From Indifference to Imperative Duty: Educating Children in Early California	p. 226
Phelan's Cemetery: Religion in the Urbanizing West, 1850-1869, in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento	p. 250
Popular Culture on the Golden Shore	p. 280
"My own private life": Toward a History of Desire in Gold Rush California	p. 316
List of Contributors	p. 347
Index	p. 351
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