| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.1 | The History Cooperative

*Spreading the Word: A History of Information in the California Gold Rush*. By Richard T. Stillson. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. viii + 274 pp. Illustrations, maps, table, appendices, notes, index. $55.00, £41.95.)
Scholars have long known that inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, and downright fraudulent information constantly challenged California gold rush emigrants. Then, as now, accurate information could mean the difference between success and failure, profit and loss, or life and death.	1
Richard T. Stillson's Spreading the Word is the first monograph devoted to analyzing the evolution of the production, dissemination, and assessment of gold rush information for and by overland emigrants between 1849 and 1851. In Spreading the Word, Stillson provides valuable new insights into emigrants' decision-making processes both during and after their journey to California.	. . .

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