This book is the chronological history of the gold rush and gold discoveries from 1848 through 1875, as viewed and reported by the newspapers and miners, on what was called the Northern Mines area of California’s Mother Lode Gold Belt. The Northern Mines was that area north of the Cosumnes River, which included Placerville on northward. It included the region containing the South, Middle and North forks of the American River, the Bear River, the South, Middle and North forks of the Yuba River, and the South, Middle and North forks of the Feather River, plus all the other branches and tributaries that ran into the named forks and rivers. This book contains as many newspaper articles that could be found relating to the gold rush days. In using the newspaper articles from the golden era as printed, with their dates, this reveals just when the “New Diggings” as they were called, were found; where they were being made; how rich some of the diggings were; what type of diggi (more…)

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“Highly recommended for persons who manage libraries and community archives.”–Choice;>“So a book that concerns itself at least in part with legal notice advertising is an unusual and useful addition. A book that examines the issue when newspapers are beginning the shift to digitized delivery systmes is timely as well….Media scholars who are interested in the public notice function should read this book and use it as a beginning point for further research.”–Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly;>

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Explores the history and function of the newspaper of record concept and its feasibility in an online age.

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The style of writing is very-readable and accessible. Data is presented well and linked to the wider issues. On the whole this book is both useful and user friendly for undergraduates and academics alike. – Political Studies Review

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During the last nine years, the public mind has been constantly agitated, more or less, through all parts of our country, with the cry of “Mormonism, Mormonism, Delusion, Imposture, Fanaticism,” etc., chiefly through the instrumentality of the press. Many of the newspapers of the day have been constantly teeming with misrepresentations and slanders of the foulest kind, in order to destroy the influence and character of an innocent society in its very infancy; a society of whose real principles many of them knew nothing at all. Every species of wickedness has been resorted to, and all manner of evil has been spoken against them falsely; insomuch that in many places houses and ears are closed against them, without the possibility of being heard for a moment. Were this the only evil, we might have less cause of complaint; but in consequence of this, we have been assaulted by mobs, some of our houses have been torn down or burned, our goods destroyed, and fields of grain l (more…)