Roaring Camp by Susan Lee Johnson
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
"Johnson puts forward a perspective on the Gold Rush far different from many stories and legends of yore…A provocative, eye-opening book" -- Sacremento Bee
"Roaring Camp deepens our understanding of continental conquest. Beautifully researched, vividly written, and compassionately argued, it also reveals the Gold Rush as a fascinating theater of human behavior." -- Times Literary Supplement
"Meticulously researched, precise, and lively…Roaring Camp offers a compelling portrait of the ways in which the experience of life in the diggings profoundly affected and altered American ideas about manhood and society." -- The American Scholar
"A must-read…Briskly, vividly written, acute in observation and use of anecdote." -- Choice
"An exemplary work of imaginative, innovative, and sensitive historical scholarship…Beautifully, even lyrically written, it opens many new insights in western U.S. history." -- David G. Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego
"Roaring Camp deepens our understanding of continental conquest. Beautifully researched, vividly written, and compassionately argued, it also reveals the Gold Rush as a fascinating theater of human behavior." -- Times Literary Supplement
"Meticulously researched, precise, and lively…Roaring Camp offers a compelling portrait of the ways in which the experience of life in the diggings profoundly affected and altered American ideas about manhood and society." -- The American Scholar
"A must-read…Briskly, vividly written, acute in observation and use of anecdote." -- Choice
"An exemplary work of imaginative, innovative, and sensitive historical scholarship…Beautifully, even lyrically written, it opens many new insights in western U.S. history." -- David G. Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego
Susan Lee Johnson is Harry Reid Endowed Chair for the History of the Intermountain West at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393320992 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393320995 |
| Title | Roaring Camp |
| Author | Susan Lee Johnson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2001-03-14 |
| Number of pages | 466 |
| Prizes | Winner of Bancroft Prize 2001 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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