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Hellacious California! Tales of Rascality, Revelry, Dissipation, and Depravity, and the Birth of the Golden State

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Auteur:	Noy, Gary
Titel:	Hellacious California! Tales of Rascality, Revelry, Dissipation, and Depravity, and the Birth of the Golden State
Uitgever:	Heyday Books
ISBN:	9781597144995
ISBN boekversie:	9781597145046
Editie:	New ed
Land van oorsprong:	United States
Prijs:	€ 18,06
Verschijningsdatum:	16-07-2020
Bericht:	Tijdelijk niet leverbaar - in herdruk

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Categorie:	Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
Geillustreerd:	b/w

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Verschijningsvorm:	Paperback / softback
Paginas:	256
Hoogte mm.:	215
Breedte mm.:	139

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In 1855 an ex-miner lamented that nineteenth-century California "can and does furnish the best bad things," including "purer liquors...finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtezans [sic]" than anywhere else in America. Lured by boons of gold and other exploitable resources, California's settler popula