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Volume 49, Number 3, Autumn 1999

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Table of Contents

Special Gold Rush Issue

Golden Dreams: Colorado, California, and the Reimagining of America
by Elliott West
page 2

Disorder, Crime, and Punishment in the California Gold Rush
by Martin Ridge
page 12

'When a Person Gits to California it is Hard to Say or Tell When He Gets Away': Why the Forty-niners Were Reluctant to Come Home to the Families They Loved
by Malcolm J. Rohrbough
page 28

No Need to Rush: The Chinese, Placer Mining, and the Western Environment
by Liping Zhu
page 42

The Legacy of the Gold Rush, An Afterword
by Martin Ridge
page 58

Essays on the West
More than the Glory: Preserving the Gold Rush and Its Outcome at Virginia City
by Ellen Baumler
page 64

Montana Reviews
page 76
Rohrbough, Days of Gold
reviewed by Kenneth N. Owens

Zhu, A Chinaman's Chance
reviewed by Jeffrey A. Safford

Riley, Building and Breaking Families in the American West
reviewed by Lillian Schlissel

Iverson, Barry Goldwater
reviewed by Art Gómez

Robbins, Landscapes of Promise
reviewed by Chet Orloff

Essin, Shavetailes and Bell Sharps
reviewed by Joseph G. Dawson III

Schubert, Black Valor
reviewed by William H. Leckie

Ronda, ed., Thomas Jefferson and the Changing West
reviewed by Carol L. MacGregor

The Montana Roundup of Books
The Montana Traveler
Bannack State Park: A Gate in Time
by Marcella Sherfy
page 92

Historical Reflections
Robber's Roost
page 94

Letters to the Editor
page 95

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