Eldorado The California Gold Rush Author:Dale L. Walker rom the multiple Spur Award winning author The first traces of raw gold were found at a sawmill on the American River in January, 1848, and by the end of the year, tens of thousands of 'forty-niners' were making their way to this vast new territory. Never before in history, and never since, had so great a gold-bearing tract been found-a belt sev... more »enty miles wide running the length of California, from the Klamath Mountains in the north to the Mojave Desert in the south. Eldorado presents the full, colorful, character-filled story of those who risked their lives chasing the end of the rainbow-not just Americans, but a polyglot horde of men, women, and children of all races from the farthest corners of the globe.« less