Table of Contents: “…The wings of the future: beginnings -- Undisciplined squads of emotion: motivations -- The consequence of fearful blindness: twilight of the Californios -- "I know it to be nothing else": the sad tale of James Marshall -- The tale of Teleguac: Jose Jesus, native resistance, and survival -- "A vast deal of knavery": the warnings of Daniel Walton -- "The El Dorado of their most sanguine wants": John Linville Hall, the first journal -- "A perfect used up man": in the diggings -- "With a taint of fraud and a spice of comedy": claim salting -- Castles in the air: quartz fever -- "Death stared them full in the face": Silas Weston and Kelly's Bar -- "That blighting curse": dissipation -- "Plenty of jabbering and quarreling and several fights": Alfred Doten -- "Gambling on one card the fruit of his labor for the year": games of chance -- "There is no persuasion more esteemed for moral conduct": Jews in the gold rush -- "Everything looks forlorn and wretched": storms and floods -- "A wind turned dark with burning": the plague of fire -- "The blue vault of heaven": Alonzo Delano and the Great Grass Valley fire of 1855 -- A crumbling kingdom: the collapse of Sutter's Fort -- The devil's chaos: hydraulic mining -- "As huge, to me, as an elephant": grizzly bears -- "A very normal childhood": children and families -- "The years have been full of hardships": Luzena Stanley Wilson -- Shadow and light: Mifflin Wistar Gibbs and defiance of discrimination.…”

Table of Contents: “…The Incomplete Angler; 15. The Dark Side of Nature; 16. Surprises; 17. October Tale.…”
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