| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Spreading the Word: A History of Information in the California Gold Rush. By Richard T. Stillson. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. x, 274 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-4325-5.)
On December 5, 1848, President James K. Polk officially announced that California was golden, exhibited over fifteen pounds of gold dust, and inaugurated a huge voluntary migration to the new El Dorado. Richard T. Stillson seeks to understand how argonauts assessed information and within six months got underway overland to the gold fields.	. . .

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