"Domestic" life in the Diggings: The southern mines in the California Gold Rush

Over the Edge: Remapping the American West

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 107-132

  Johnson, Susan Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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