{"product_id":"jersey-gold-margaret-casterline-bowen-9780806157146","title":"Jersey Gold: The Newark Overland Company's Trek to California, 1849","description":"\u003cbr\u003e When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy--prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad--assembled a company to travel overland to California. In \u003ci\u003eJersey Gold\u003c\/i\u003e, Margaret Casterline Bowen and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles tell the story of that colorful company of some thirty stalwarts and adventurers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eJersey Gold\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the experiences of the New Jersey argonauts from their lives before the gold rush to the widely varying fortunes each ultimately found. Animated by the trekkers' own words and observations and illustrated with maps, photographs, and drawings by one of the company's own men, \u003ci\u003eJersey Gold\u003c\/i\u003e follows the Newark Overland Company's journey by rail, stage, and riverboat to the Missouri frontier town of Independence, the group's jumping-off point for the Oregon-California trail. There, the company splintered. Their divergent paths afford views of the westward journey from multiple perspectives as the companies faced the perils of the wilderness and the treachery of human nature. Once in gold country, many booked immediate passage home, but some remained with Darcy to work a successful mining operation before returning east with comfortable fortunes. A few, enchanted by the opportunities of the Golden Coast, took up permanent residence there--and in their stories we witness the emergence of California amid unprecedented lawlessness, the controversy of slavery, and diverse nationalities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The story of the Newark Overland Company--in many ways a panorama of the nineteenth century--ranges from the wildness of the frontier through the chaos of the Civil War to the throes of early industrialization, and features such notables as John Sutter, Brigham Young, and Henry Clay. In chronicling this journey, \u003ci\u003eJersey Gold\u003c\/i\u003e vividly re-creates a defining chapter in American history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret Casterline Bowen, Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0806157143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780806157146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.10d","brand":"Margaret Casterline Bowen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46383871131903,"sku":"9780806157146","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9a635a45-4022-451d-a156-a2514cfe89d0.jpg?v=1733281920","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jersey-gold-margaret-casterline-bowen-9780806157146","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}