Title: Regretful
Product review: Academically, this UCB/UCD grad & U of Mass history professor is sound, a bit dry, perhaps a bit overreaching at times. Growing up in Northern section, I was aware of the conflict, that California once might have been split. But the title and, indeed, the quality antique photos upon the cover, were misleading, for this is not about the Gold Rush and its participants, but rather about the "Great Men" who played the "Great Roles" and "made" the history, and their immediate compatriots.... not about the common fellows who traveled from Northern and Southern States, and how they, now 2-3000 miles from home, were terribly torn by the oncoming conflict, what they felt and experienced, how it impacted in the camps and on the flats, and the choices they came to make, which is what I'd hoped for. For that, one star; for the academics, 4, averaging on the lower side.
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