Tarnished Gold: Prejudice During the California Gold Rush

A detailed and lively history of race prejudice and anti-foreign sentiment in California during the gold rush, between 1849 and 1855. Employing many original sources, particularly frontier newspapers of the period, Hill depicts the treatment not only of the Chinese, Mexicans, and Chilenos but also of the French, Germans, and Pacific Islanders by the Americans who swarmed West in search of gold.