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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The world of the California Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Lee Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode.</p><p>Johnson explores the dynamic social world created by the Gold Rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Stockton, charting the surprising ways in which the conventions of identity--ethnic, national, and sexual--were reshaped. With a keen eye for character and story, she shows us how this peculiar world evolved over time, and how our cultural memory of the Gold Rush took root.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><em>Roaring Camp</em> deepens our understanding of continental conquest. Beautifully researched, vividly written, and compassionately argued, it also reveals the Gold Rush as a fascinating theater of human behavior.--Times Literary Supplement<br><br>Johnson puts forward a perspective on the Gold Rush far different from many stories and legends of yore...A provocative, eye-opening book.-- "Sacremento Bee"<br><br>Meticulously researched, precise, and lively...<em>Roaring Camp</em> offers a compelling portrait of the ways in which the experience of life in the diggings profoundly affected and altered American ideas about manhood and society.--The American Scholar<br><br>A must-read...Briskly, vividly written, acute in observation and use of anecdote.--Choice<br><br>An exemplary work of imaginative, innovative, and sensitive historical scholarship...Beautifully, even lyrically written, it opens many new insights in western U.S. history.--David G. Gutierrez, University of California, San Diego<br>

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