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  | | Rooted in Barbarous Soil$$$$ People, Culture, and Community in Gold Rush California (California History Sesquicentennial Series) Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22497-1, ISBN: 0-520-22497-3 "Perhaps never in the time-honored American tradition of frontiering did "civilization" appear to sink so low as in gold rush California. A mercurial economy swung from boom to bust, and back again, rendering everyone's fortunes ephemeral. Competition, jealousy, and racism fueled individual and mass violence. Yet, in the very midst of this turbulence, social and cultural forms emerged, gained strength, spread, and took hold. Rooted in Ba ..." |