| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Movie Reviews

The Gold Rush. Dir. by Randall MacLowry. Prod. by Randall MacLowry and Laura Longsworth. Yellow Jersey Films Inc. in association with KQED, 2006. 120 mins. (PBS Home Video, http://www.shoppbs.org/)

As this film states, the gold rush transformed California and the nation, and that statement is true. But that is not the actual point of the film. Based on recent scholarship, the presentation looks at the multicultural and multiracial aspects of the gold rush and the hardships that came with the quest for instant wealth. It does this by focusing on five people: a Californio, Antonio Franco Coronel; a Chilean, Vicente Perez Rosales; a blacksmith from New York, Hiram Pierce; a woman who followed her husband west, Luzena Wilson; and a sea captain's son, Alfred Doten.

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