The Forty-Niners

Textbook Edition

The Chronicles of America Series

Allen Johnson, Editor

Gerhard R. Lomer

Charles W. Jefferys

Assistant Editors

The Forty-Niners

A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado

By Stewart Edward White

New Haven: Yale University Press

Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co.

London: Humphrey Milford

Oxford University Press

Copyright, 1918, by Yale University Press

Contents:

1. Spanish Days page 1

2. The American Occupation “ 13

3. Law-Military and Civil “ 46

4. Gold “ 55

5. Across the Plains “ 67

6. The Mormons “ 77

7. The Way by Panama “ 96

8. The Diggings “ 106

9. The Urban Forty-Niner “ 119

10. Ordeal by Fire “ 140

11. The Vigilantes of ’51 “ 150

12. San Francisco in Transition “ 159

13. The Storm Gathers “ 174

14. The Storm Breaks “ 210

15. The Vigilantes of ’56 “ 231

16. The Triumphs of the Vigilantes “ 258

Bibliographical Note “ 267

Index “ 271

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