Hard road west : history & geology along the Gold Rush trail / Keith Heyer Meldahl.
2007
F593 .M479 2007 (Mapit)
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Hard road west : history & geology along the Gold Rush trail / Keith Heyer Meldahl.
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ISBN
9780226519609 (alk. paper)
0226519600 (alk. paper)
0226519600 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Language
English
Description
xxi, 329 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
F593 .M479 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
978/.02
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-315) and index.
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Table of Contents
An American journey
Between winter's chill brackets
Ascending the plains
Exhumed mountains and hungry rivers
Black Hills and bent rock
To the backbone of the continent
Cordilleran upheaval
Most godforsaken country
The bear and the snake
A breaking up of the world
Most miserable river
The worst desert you ever saw
Into the land of gold
Contingent history.
Between winter's chill brackets
Ascending the plains
Exhumed mountains and hungry rivers
Black Hills and bent rock
To the backbone of the continent
Cordilleran upheaval
Most godforsaken country
The bear and the snake
A breaking up of the world
Most miserable river
The worst desert you ever saw
Into the land of gold
Contingent history.