| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Calaveras Gold: The Impact of Mining on a Mother Lode County. By Ronald H. Limbaugh and Willard P. Fuller Jr. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2004. xii, 404 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-87417-546-1.)

Calaveras County is situated in the area once known as the "Southern Mines" of the California gold country. In every way it is typical of the region, its landscapes cut by streams and rivers descending from the Sierras to the San Joaquin Valley, its topography moving on the upward arc from rolling foothills of arid grassland and manzanita to steep forests of pine, cedar, and, in one corner of the county, California's northernmost stand of giant sequoias. In its early years, the county's population included Miwok and Yokuts Indians along with large numbers of Mexicans, Chinese, Europeans, and Anglo-Americans who came for its deposits of placer and quartz-vein gold. According to Ronald H. Limbaugh and Willard P. Fuller Jr., the extraction of that gold dominates much of the county's history. Their goal is to combine the old chamber-of-commerce approach to county history—antique and uplifting tales of great (white) men, technology and progress—with recent trends in the social, multicultural, and environmental history of California.

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