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It has always been understood that the 1848 discovery of gold in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada influenced the battle over the admission of California to the Union. But now, in this revelatory study, award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards makes clear the links between the Gold Rush and many of the regional crises in the lead-up to the Civil War.Richards explains how Southerners envisioned California as a ... 

Eric says: “I never knew how much effort had been put into trying to make California into a slave state. This...”