Bancroft Prize-winning social history of the California Gold Rush, tracing how race, gender, class, and desire reshaped life in the mining camps.
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Bancroft Prize-winning social history of the California Gold Rush, tracing how race, gender, class, and desire reshaped life in the mining camps.
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"Susan Lee Johnson's Roaring Camp explores the dynamic social world created by the gold rush in the Sierra Nevada foothills east of Stockton. In it we find Mexican families like the Murrietas who worked the mines, did the wash, and rose up against Anglo rule. There are the California Indians who tried to maintain their customary practices even while helping to construct the sawmill at Sutter's fort where gold was discovered in 1848.
We enter the all-male households of the diggings, the mines wh...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Historical discussion of prostitution, sexual commerce, and camp intimacy
Violence & gore
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Ethnic conflict, camp violence, and struggles over regional dominion
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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Saloons and drinking culture recur in gold-camp social life
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Central analysis of gender fluidity and reshaped sexual identities
Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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No occult content present
Political content
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Race, class, Manifest Destiny, and Anglo dominion over the region
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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Conquest, racial violence, Indigenous displacement, and exploitation
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