A good suggestion is Isabel Allende's "Daughter of Fortune" about a Chilean woman in the Californian gold rush. Bret Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp" would be a good Gutenbergable one.
An Australian classic, and Gutenbergable: Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms: A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Goldfields of Australia (1882), about a man who joined a gang of bushrangers and preyed on miners during the gold rush of the 1850s.
Another Australian perspective: Nerida Newton, The Lambing Flat, about a young Chinese immigrant caught up in the nineteenth century Australian gold rush and a young woman on a Queensland cattle station who come to care for each other after he loses his father in the Lambing Flat riots
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Re: Gold Rushes
Date: 2009-06-01 11:36 pm (UTC)A good suggestion is Isabel Allende's "Daughter of Fortune" about a Chilean woman in the Californian gold rush. Bret Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp" would be a good Gutenbergable one.
An Australian classic, and Gutenbergable: Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms: A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Goldfields of Australia (1882), about a man who joined a gang of bushrangers and preyed on miners during the gold rush of the 1850s.
Another Australian perspective: Nerida Newton, The Lambing Flat, about a young Chinese immigrant caught up in the nineteenth century Australian gold rush and a young woman on a Queensland cattle station who come to care for each other after he loses his father in the Lambing Flat riots