Sacramento's Gold Rush Saloons:: El Dorado in a Shot Glass (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781626191709)

As early as 1839, Sacramento, California, was home to one of the most enduring symbols of the American West: the saloon. From the portability of the Stinking Tent to the Gold Rush favorite El Dorado Gambling Saloon to the venerable Sutter's Fort, Sacramento saloons offered not simply a nip of whiskey and a round of monte but also operated as polling place, museum, political hothouse, vigilante court and site of some of the nineteenth century's worst violence. From librarian James Scott and the Special Collections of the Sacramento Public Library comes a fascinating history of Sacramento saloons featuring the advent of all types of gaming, the rise of local alcohol production and the color and guile of some of the region's most compelling personalities..

Author: Special Collections of the Sacramento Pu
ISBN-10: 1626191700
ISBN-13: 9781626191709
Publisher: History Press
Language: English
Published: 01/28/2014
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d