Plotting the Golden West : American Literature and the Rhetoric of the California Trail

Cambridge University Press

Plotting the Golden West\nby Stephen Fender\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Stephen Fender\nTitle: Plotting the Golden West\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: general\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2010\nISBN-13: 9780521135719\nISBN-10: 0521135710\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis book focuses on the experience of the Californian Gold Rush of 18491850, not in terms of what happened (a subject much covered by historians) but in terms of how people of various levels of sophistication wrote about it.\n\nThis book focuses on the experience of the Californian Gold Rush of 1849\u20131850, not in terms of what happened (a subject much covered by historians) but in terms of how people of various levels of sophistication wrote about it..