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The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War.(Brief article)(Book review)
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When a golden pebble was discovered at Johann Sutter's sawmill in 1848, setting off the Gold Rush, many in the South believed that profitable new territory had become available for their peculiar institution. Southerners and Free-Soilers spent the next decade in a fight over California that, Richards argues, is integral to the story of how the Civil War began. It ...
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