| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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Book Review

Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush. By Susan Lee Johnson. (New York: Norton, 2000. 464 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0393-04812-8.)

This extraordinary work of historical scholarship and imagination recharts the familiar terrain of the California gold rush. The title comes from Bret Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp," which helped inscribe a mythic gold rush in collective memory. Susan Lee Johnson evokes the myth to challenge its ahistorical and acultural assumptions of normative whiteness, masculinity, and heterosexuality. This is a history not of a singular social world, but of interconnected social worlds constructed by a multiracial, multinational, mostly male cast in the Southern Mines of the San Joaquin River drainage. . . .

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