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The Georgia Gold Rush : Twenty-niners, Cherokees, and Gold Fever
author
:
Williams, David.
publisher
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University of South Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
:
1570030529
print isbn13
:
9781570030529
ebook isbn13
:
9780585333472
language
:
English
subject
Georgia--Gold discoveries, Cherokee Indians--History--19th century, Georgia--History--1775-1865, Gold mines and mining--Georgia--History--19th century.
publication date
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1995
lcc
:
F290.W54 1995eb
ddc
:
975.8/03
subject
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Georgia--Gold discoveries, Cherokee Indians--History--19th century, Georgia--History--1775-1865, Gold mines and mining--Georgia--History--19th century.
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The Georgia Gold Rush
Twenty-Niners, Cherokees, and Gold Fever
David Williams
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Disclaimer: Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook.
Copyright 1993 University of South Carolina
Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press
First Published 1993 Reissued in Paperback 1995
Manufactured in the United States of America
00 99 98 97 5 4 3 2
ISBN 1-57003-052-9
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 9228653
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For "T"
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Contents
Illustrations
ix
Preface
xi
Introduction
1
Chapter One "No Talke, No Hope, Nor Worke, but Dig Gold": The Origins of Southern Gold Fever
7
Chapter Two "Acting Like Crazy Men": Gold Fever and the Great Intrusion
21
Chapter Three "Get a Little Further": The Cherokee Nation Abandoned
37
Chapter Four "Civilized Life" Comes to the Gold Region
47
Chapter Five "It's Just Like GamblingAll Luck": Mining in the Gold Rush Days
65
Chapter Six "Gambling Houses, Dancing Houses, & Drinking Saloons": Life in the Georgia Gold Region
83
Chapter Seven "Prosper the Americans and Cherokees": The Climactic Year of 1838
105
Epilogue: "Gold Fever... Ain't No Cure for It"
117
Notes
125
Bibliography
155
Index
169
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Illustrations
Figures
following page
48
Benjamin Parks, one of the original twenty-niners First evidence of a gold strike in Georgia Gold miners in nineteenth-century Lumpkin County John Ross, principal chief of the Cherokees Major Ridge, leader of the "treaty faction" Congressman David Crockett of Tennessee President Andrew Jackson as "King Andrew the First" George Gilmer, governor of Georgia (182931, 183739) Wilson Lumpkin, governor of Georgia (183135) Drawing tickets in the Land Lottery Panning for gold on Long Branch An African-American miner operating a cradle rocker Bill and Tom Jenkins at their sluice box The hollow gum rocker or Long Tom A variation on the sluice box A variation on the gum rocker and sluice box
following page
112
A two-man dredge boat Bracing a mine tunnel Entrance to a gold mine in Lumpkin County Gold-bearing quartz vein at the Hamilton Mine A nineteenth-century stamp mill A small stamp mill Runaway slave notice The Federal Branch Mint at Dahlonega The Cherokees on the Trail of Tears Matthew Stephenson, assayer at the Dahlonega mint Nineteenth-century Dahlonega Hydraulic Mining on Crown Mountain
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The Dahlonega Consolidated Gold Mining Company Stamp mill of the Dahlonega Consolidated Auraria today The old Graham Hotel in Auraria
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