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Winter, 2003
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Gold Rush Capitalists: Greed and Growth in Sacramento. By Mark A. Eifler. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002. 280 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95, cloth; $21.95, paper.)
      The Sacramento Squatters' Riot of 1850 has not lacked for attention. Historians from H. H. Bancroft to W. W. Robinson have portrayed the squatters as a lawless, grasping mob bent on stealing land that belonged to others. During the gold rush, when California teemed with restless adventurers, some of those who found no precious metal laid claim to precious soil instead. Taking advantage of amorphous legal authority, squatters attached themselves to valuable, but seemingly unoccupied, real estate and defied anyone to dislodge them. In the time-honored western manner, California squatters insisted that their claim, by right of "pre-emption," was supreme. Sometimes squatters banded together to defend their claims, and sometimes the result was bloodshed—notably in Sacramento. . . .
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