... Marcy & the Gold Seekers: the Journal of Capt. R. B. Marcy with an Account of the Gold Bush over the Southern Route . By Foreman Grant . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 1939 . Pp. xiv , 433 . Map. $3.00 .) Copyright 1939 by Duke University Press 1939 ...

...John A. Hussey In California before the Gold Rush . By Bidwell John . With a foreword by Bynum Lindley . ( Los Angeles : Ward Ritchie Press , 1948 . Pp. vii , 111 . Illustrations. $3.75 .) Copyright 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 ...

...John A. Hussey Apron Full of Gold: The Letters of Mary Jane Megquier from San Francisco, 1849-1856 . Edited by Cleland Robert Glass . ( San Marino, California : The Huntington Library , 1949 . Pp. ix , 99 . Illustrations. $3.50 .) Copyright 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 ...

...J. H. Parry Gold, Glory, and the Gospel. The Adventurous Lives and Times of the Renaissance Explorers . By Wright Louis B. . New York , 1970 . Atheneum . Index . Pp. xvi , 362 . Cloth. $10.00 . Copyright 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The subtitle of Mr. Wright’s...

...John A. Hussey Mexican Gold Trail: The Journal of a Forty-Niner . By Evans George W. B. . Edited by Dumke Glenn S. . [ Huntington Library Publications .] ( Los Angeles : Anderson & Ritchie: The Ward Ritchie Press , 1845 . Pp. xx , 340 . Illustrations. $5.00...

...Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage: Governing through Slavery in Colonial Quito . By Bryant Sherwin K. . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2014 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xix, 240 pp. Cloth , $35.00 . Copyright ©...

...Elizabeth Kuznesof Licentious Liberty in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region: Slavery, Gender, and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabara, Minas Gerais . By Higgins Kathleen J. . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press : 1999 . Photographs. Graphs. Tables. Appendixes...

...John Jay Tepaske The Gold and Silver of Spanish America, c. 1572–1648; Tables Showing Bullion Declared for Taxation in Colonial Treasuries, Remittances to Spain, and Expenditures for Defense of Empire . By Sluiter Engel . Berkeley : The Bancroft Library, University of California...

...Jason M. Colby Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush . By Mcguinness Aims . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2008 . Plates. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xii , 249 . Cloth , $35.00 . Paper , $19.95 . Copyright 2009 by Duke University...

...Stephen Haber British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d’el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830-1960 . By Eakin Marshall C. . Durham : Duke University Press , 1990 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliographical essay. Index. xxiii...

...José C. Canales Copyright 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Sugar, Gold, and Coffee. Essays on the History of Brazil Based on Francis Hull’s Books . By Reichmann Felix . Ithaca, New York , 1959 . Cornell University Library . The Francis Hull Library of Braziliana...

...John Howland Rowe The gold of Peru. Masterpieces of goldsmith’s work of pre-Incan and Incan time and the colonial period . By Gallo Miguel Mujica . Recklinghausen , 1959 . Aurei Bongers Verlag . 144 color plates . Pp. 296 . [Available at Herder Book Center, 7 West 46th Street, N.Y...

... California Gold Rush Voyages, 1848-1849 . Edited by Pomfret John Edwin . San Marino, California , 1954 . Huntington Library . Maps . Pp. x , 246 . Copyright 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 ...

...Clifford Evans Copyright 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Buried Gold & Anacondas . By Blombeeg Rolf . Translated by Lyon F. H. . New York , 1959 . Thomas Nelson & Sons . Maps. Illustrations. Index . Pp. 144 . Cloth . $5.00 . ...

...Thomas Bader Chile, Peru, and the California Gold Rush of 1849 . By Monaghan Jay . Berkeley , 1973 . University of California Press . Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. viii , 312 . Cloth. $11.95 . Copyright 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Despite the imprint...

... it whiter and finer than our Muscavado as we call our unrefined sugar.” But the spectacular revival of the Luso-Brazilian economy, which began in the 1690s, resulted mainly from the belated discovery of alluvial gold. This was found on an unprecedented scale in a remote and forbidding region some two...

..., but the historian H. H. Bancroft cites the names of twenty-one confirmed participants, plus fourteen probable participants. William B. Ide, one of the leaders, places the figure at thirty-two to thirty-four; other contemporaries give comparable figures. For all its shortcomings, Fool’s Gold offers enjoyable...

...Charles Wagley Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians . By Hemming John . Cambridge , 1978 . Harvard University Press . Maps. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xvii , 677 . Cloth. $18.50 . Copyright 1979 by Duke University Press 1979...

...S.P.B. The accounts also describe the voyage from Valparaíso to the Golden Gate; hope, frustration and tragedy in the gold fields; and the carnival-like society of San Francisco and Sacramento. Detail and illustration are rich throughout the accounts, and historians both of Latin America...

...C. R. Boxer The Funnel of Gold . By Peterson Mendel . Boston , 1975 . Little, Brown and Company . Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xi , 481 . Cloth. $15.00 . Copyright 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 The dust jacket of this book claims inter...