The stereotype of the “gold digger” has had a fascinating trajectory in twentieth-century America, from tales of greedy flapper-era chorus girls to tabloid

One of the most illuminating of the gold rush diaries, focused in detail and panoramic in scope. The diary includes anthropological, sociological, political and

Chauncey de Leon Canfield (1843-1909) first published "The diary of a forty-niner" in 1906, and 1,200 of the 2,000 copies in that edition were burned. Joseph Ga

A diary account of 14-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon a